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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...