Springtails are about the size of a pinhead, but they can control their jumps like seasoned acrobats. By Oliver Whang See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura ...

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 ...