Beetles are one of the strongest animals in our planet, with some beetle species capable of lifting objects that are over 1,100 times heavier than their body weight (which is comparable to an average human being lifting a 70-ton object!). This makes beetles a promising asset to scientists, as it can wear a camera backpack with ease, and that’s just what the scientists did: they put cameras on two different types of beetles, and both survived in the end. But what were these cameras for?
Find out over at Cosmos Magazine.
(Image Credit: Iyer et al., Sci. Robot. 5, eabb0839/ Cosmos)