Chela grip strength reaches UP TO 3,300 NEWTONS (over 740 pounds-force) — strongest pinch in any animal except some sharks and crocodiles. Far exceeds human bite or grip strength.
The dung beetle Onthophagus taurus has been measured pulling 1,141 times its own body weight — pound for pound the strongest animal ever recorded.
Goliath beetle larvae can weigh 80–100 grams — heavier than the adult that emerges from them.
Lab tests have measured Goliath beetles lifting up to 850× their own body weight — pound for pound, one of the strongest animals ever measured.
A Hercules beetle can lift around 100× its own body weight — a feat dung beetles still beat by an order of magnitude.
A cicada killer drags her paralyzed cicada — often heavier than herself — back to her burrow, sometimes 100+ meters.
