Spittlebug New High-Jump Champion

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 13:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers from Cambridge and Dalhousie universities discovered spittlebugs leap more than 70 centimetres in a single bound. This amounts to 100 body-lengths, out-distancing its closest rival, the flea.

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