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The strongest living land creatures on Earth - PHOTOS

14 May 2010 [10:50] - TODAY.AZ
The strongest land creature on Earth (measured by power-to-weight ratio) is the oribatid mite, a group of tiny soil-dwelling things which can be found in their hundreds of thousands in your average square metre of dirt. It can resist a pull of 1,180 times its own weight – which is similar to a human pulling 82 tons. Below are the pictures of these "strongest creatures". Let's take a look.


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Photos: Telegraph.co.uk
URL: http://www.today.az/news/photo/65199.html

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