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ELI5: Why are ants not harmed like humans when they fall from great heights?

When human beings fall from a great height, they are broken up by the force of the fall, but when ants fall from a similar height (proportionate to their size), they just keep going, unharmed. Is there a plausible explanation for this?
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Because of the square-cube rule. Drag is proportional to area, which is a ~length x width. But gravity is proportional to mass, which is proportional to volume which is length x width x height. For humans, the mass and force of gravity are fairly big, and is not overcome by drag (reaching terminal velocity) until pretty high speeds. Meanwhile a much smaller object like an ant has a much larger surface area to mass or volume ratio, and thus reaches a terminal  velocity much earlier/ at lower speeds, making a fall at terminal speeds much more survivable

Edit: got rid of asterisks for multiplication and replaced with “x”