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Meet the springtails: little-known fantastic beasts that live everywhere on Earth

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par Mark Stevens, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University
Cyrille D’Haese, Entomologist, Sorbonne Université

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 for hundreds of millions of years.

They are known as springtails – an ancient group of invertebrates that evolved along with mosses and lichens dating back to more…

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