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Mark Stevens is affiliated with Adelaide University and is employed at the South Australian Museum. He received partial funding from The Waterhouse Club that assisted his research. Cyrille D’Haese is ...

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 ...

ALTOONA, Penn.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Juniata Valley Audubon Society filed a petition today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for Pennsylvania’s Heller Cave springtail, a ...

The discovery took place on Tsushima Island in Japan, where Hiro Kasai and his team were studying the tiny, six-legged soil animals known as springtails. These insects, which measure just 0.06 to 0.07 ...

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 ...