It’s not just panic and chance. Some of nature’s extreme self-launchers, the springtails, turn out to be much more acrobatic than scientists thought. Springtails, poppy seed–sized cousins of insects, ...

What can minuscule soil-dwellers teach us about nature's adaptation to climate change? Researchers in Norway and South Africa are using springtails as model systems in order to study how different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They are known as springtails – an ancient group of invertebrates that evolved along with mosses and lichens dating back to more ...

Springtails are about the size of a pinhead, but they can control their jumps like seasoned acrobats. By Oliver Whang Among the wonders of the natural world that few people have ever noticed: a ...

Collembola, commonly known as springtails, represent one of the earliest terrestrial hexapod radiations and occupy virtually all soil and leaf-litter habitats worldwide. Despite their ecological ...

Scientists looking for animals in Hungary found brightly colored collembola and discovered a new springtail species. Winkler D, Sternalski J, Ónodi G, Szigeti N, Florián N, Dányi L via ZooKeys A tiny ...

Springtails look like busy little cartoon aliens and I’m here for it. Look at those miniature ones interacting with each other. What is going on over there? Springtails form a large group of ...

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 ...

Alias: Springtail, or often they are simply called collembola. These are tiny little insects that are more often mistaken for crumbs or dirt left around the house. They look like a small hairy ant or ...

You’ve probably never heard of them, let alone seen them, but it’s likely you have some in your home. Springtails are only 1-2 mm long but are ubiquitous, found in every habitat except the oceans.

When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal -- being able to pick up and leave to occupy new lands, find fresh resources and mates, and avoid ...