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Photo Credit: Thomas Endlein, University of Cambridge.

To a human, 500 milligrams is the size of a vitamin pill. But to an ant, it’s 100 times its body weight, making lifting it the equivalent of the average American man hoisting 19,000 pounds — with his teeth. That’s just the feat one of these humble insects was recently captured performing in an award-winning photograph by a British scientist…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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