Springtails are those small hexapod invertebrates that are known to spring at the hint of foreign movement, thus acquiring their unique name. Though they form an active part of the soil food web by ...

Mark Stevens is affiliated with Adelaide University and is employed at the South Australian Museum. He received partial funding from The Waterhouse Club that assisted his research. Cyrille D’Haese is ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth – from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 metres underground – live tiny critters that have shaped the health of our planet ...