{"id":612687,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/?p=612687"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:26:12","slug":"the-strongest-beetle-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/the-strongest-beetle-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strongest Beetle in the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Need help moving? Be sure to recruit a beetle! The Horned Dung Beetle (<em>Onthophagus taurus<\/em>), for instance, can pull 1,141 times its own body weight. That\u2019s like a person pulling six large buses full of people!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-11072\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"365\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle.jpeg\" alt=\"dung beetle\" class=\"wp-image-11072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle.jpeg 468w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine pulling 1,141 times your own weight? That is just what this beetle can do. Find out which beetle we&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236039,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[127,112,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-612687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-beetle","11":"tag-insect","12":"tag-record-breaker"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612690,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687\/revisions\/612690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}