World's strongest animal effectively benches a thousand timesits body weight
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From: Sam Wormley on 24 Mar 2010 22:35 On 3/24/10 8:31 PM, Zinnic wrote: > On Mar 24, 5:33 pm, Sam Wormley<sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3/24/10 4:59 PM, Sam Wormley wrote: >> >> >> >>> Even if a grown man could pull 95,000 kilograms, he still would get >>> shown up (proportionally) by a species of dung beetle, the newly crowned >>> world's strongest insect >> >>> http://cl.exct.net/?qs=247f457e7f1977a1b7397d8163f71a33ca672d6f715146... >> >> ScienceShot: World's Strongest Insect >> Horned dung beetle can pull over 1000 times its own body weight >> >> http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/scienceshot-worlds-stro... > > What is the big deal here? Man can squash a horned beetle and use a > deisel locomotive to haul much, much more tha 1,000 times his body > weight. By burning fossil fuels? |