{"id":605268,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/?p=605268"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:28:06","slug":"the-strongest-beetle-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/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\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_dung_beetle.jpeg 468w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/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":146387,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-605268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605270,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605268\/revisions\/605270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}