Also on HuffPost World's Most Extreme Animals World's Most Extreme Animals1 of 13 Strongest Animal (For Its Size) The Atlas beetle can push around 850 times its weight. YouTube/Brendan WeinsteinAs it turned out, the object in hot pursuit was a peregrine falcon -- widely considered the world's fastest animal. Weinstein told HuffPost that in his two years of BASE jumping and four years of skydiving, he's never seen anything like this. It was only upon reviewing his camera footage a few days later, Weinstein told The Huffington Post by phone, that he spotted what he initially thought was another human thrill-seeker. Or perhaps the falcon -- a species that has been clocked at speeds topping 200 mph -- was just trying to show off.

Source: Huffington Post June 03, 2016 04:26 UTC