Is bigger always better? | Head Squeeze

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Have you ever heard the claim, that if an ant was the size of a human it could lift an elephant? Aside from the fact it would suffocate under its own exoskeleton, Hannah Fry @FryRsquared explains how things change with size. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthLab

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