In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters underground—live tiny critters that have shaped the health of our planet for ...

These ancient arthropods are commonly found in snow at this time of year. Here's what gave them the nickname "snow flea." ...

Aug. 2, 2004 -- The arthropod Collembola (Springtails) is a common factor in patients originally diagnosed with delusory parasitosis, according to the results of a case-controlled study published in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...