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A tiny garden bug has been dubbed the real-life Sonic the Hedgehog because it does the fastest backflips on the planet. The “insanely fast” globular springtail completes a full body rotation in less ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snowy conditions and cold weather could reveal springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's wet, cold weather is revealing springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter. The ...

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 ...

Snowy conditions and cold weather in Kentucky could reveal springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter. The tiny "bugs" are known for their haphazard jumping, which ...

Snowy conditions and cold weather could reveal springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter. The tiny "bugs" are known for their haphazard jumping, which has earned ...