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How an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip

How an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip

Despite its size, the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta) can vault itself 60 mm in the air, spinning at a rate as fast as 368 times per second, researchers report August 29 in Integrative Organismal Biology.