Springtails, an ancient arthropod, are commonly found in snow at this time of year. Here's what gave them the nickname, "snow ...

With the cold, wet weather across Metro Detroit, some residents have noticed tiny black bugs jumping around on snow and ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters ...

From water and trees, to fall leaf litter and the snows of winter, springtails are some of the most abundant and acrobatic arthropods on Earth. “They’re really common soil animals that live and sort ...

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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 ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...