When researchers filmed one species of globular springtail, Dicyrtomina minuta, they found the hexapod can leap up to 60 times its body height and spins as fast as 368 times per second in a jump that lasts just 161 milliseconds.
Adrian Smith, an entomologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and Jacob Harrison, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently recorded these observations in a paper in Integrative Organismal Biology. 'This paper is amazing because the videos are fantastic,' said Victor Ortega Jiménez.
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