Stronger than an elephant and a rhinoceros combined: the tiny horned mite is the strongest animal in the world. The arachnid can hold almost 1200 times its own body weight.
Converted to human strength, this would mean that a person weighing around 70 kilograms would have to lift around 82.6 tonnes to keep up with the mite. Researchers suspect the reason for its incredible strength lies in the way it obtains food. The oribatid mite, which is widespread in the tropics, weighs only a ten-thousandth of a gram.