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Springtails are Weird News Bears. Like spiders, they’re properly not insects.
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That video should have this soundtrack:
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This is really cool. He should show an image of them under UV light. The jump has to be using a lot of resilin (the world’s most elastic protein that propels arthropod jumps and glows under UV). There must be a large abdominal muscle that locks the tail and loads tension of a bunch of resilin for that much force
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I’ve seen those moves before! Those bugs know kung fu!
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Yeah, but can they do this:
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