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.

If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an ...

New research sheds light on how fleas jump, reaching speeds as fast as 1.9 meters per second. Using high-speed recording equipment and sophisticated mathematical models, scientists were able to prove ...

No, not rabbits or frogs. Fleas. Using new tools like high-speed video, researchers with the University of Cambridge in England have shown that fleas take off from their tibiae and tarsi — the insect ...

Did you envision a giant machine assembling cars, Data from “Star Trek,” C-3PO from “Star Wars” or “The Terminator”? Most of us would probably think of something massive – or at least human size. But ...

In the insect world, the creatures that can jump the fastest and highest have the best chance to escape predators. Now, a British zoologist has discovered that the common crop-eating pest called the ...

Fleas perform an amazing feat when they jump, and the mechanics behind the tiny, bloodsucking pests' acrobatics have been studied -- and debated -- for a long time. But new research may have settled ...

Snow fleas are taking over Vermont. At least it feels that way when the bugs congregate in the white powder. A Facebook user in the "I grew up in Vermont!" group posted a less-than-15 second clip of ...

The shortest poem ever written is known as Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes or, more simply, as Fleas. It goes: Adam/ Had ‘em. It’s a cute verse, but we don’t need Blblical references to know what ...