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Move over, Sonic. There's a new spin-jumping champion in town—the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air, spinning to over 60 times its body height in ...

Watching springtails backflip at a rate of 290 per second in super slow-motion reveals their ridiculous speed and strength. There’s something about zooming in on the life of bugs that’s so ...

"The existence of this hitchhiking behavior is especially exciting given the fact that modern springtails are rarely described as having any interspecfic association with surrounding animals," said ...

A newly reported, 16-million-year-old fossil is shedding light on how a group of tiny arthropods may have traversed the globe -- by hitchhiking. When trying to better the odds for survival, a major ...