Aim: Species-body size distributions (SBDs) are plots of species richness across body size classes. They have been linked to energetic constraints, speciation-extinction dynamics and to evolutionary ...

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 ...

Springtails look like busy little cartoon aliens and I’m here for it. Look at those miniature ones interacting with each other. What is going on over there? Springtails form a large group of ...

In the shadow of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, tiny creatures harbour clues to ancient environmental changes at the southern end of the world — and to potential future changes around the ...

The next time you’re near a pond or creek, bend down and take a closer look—you just might see tiny insect-like organisms, not much bigger than the width of a spaghetti strand, taking incredible leaps ...

Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis. By Sofia Quaglia They’re dirt-dwelling invertebrates, but, in a ...

In all these many years, I have never written a column on springtails, and yet I am pretty sure you have them all over your yard. In fact, you have more of them than any other arthropod. You probably ...