An ant carrying a crumb across your kitchen floor can lift and haul around 50 times its own body weight — the human equivalent of a person carrying a small car up a flight of stairs without slowing down
Leafcutter ants routinely haul loads 50 times their body weight — a scaling trick rooted in Galileo's square-cube law and a neck joint that can bear 5,000 times an ant's weight before failing. The…
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