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 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s something about zooming in on the life of bugs that’s so otherworldly. The springtail bug, for example, is a ...

Composite image of a globular springtail jumping. DR. ADRIAN SMITH VIA SWNS. “> A tiny garden bug has been dubbed the real-life Sonic the Hedgehog because it does the fastest backflips on the planet.

Watch Albert Belmontes, Finn Zilla, Flying Fjord, and Marius et Enzo pull off daring cliff jumps, backflips from cranes, and precise dives from towering bridges. From a quarry lake launch to a ...

Watching springtails backflip at a rate of 290 per second in super slow-motion reveals their ridiculous speed and strength. There’s something about zooming in on the life of bugs that’s so ...