insects
An ant looks tiny and easy to squish, but if you were as strong as an ant for your size, you could lift a car right over your head!
Many ants can lift objects dozens of times their own body weight, a feat scientists attribute to their small size and how their muscles and joints are proportioned, letting tiny fibers generate outsized force.
The idea an ant can barely lift a grain of sand badly underestimates real ant strength. Calling them 'nothing special' ignores decades of scientific interest in this exact ability.
If a human could lift proportionally as much as an ant, a person might hoist something as heavy as a car.
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