These tiny bouncing specks you see hopping across the snow are springtails, ancient little arthropods that have been around ...

Springtails, an ancient arthropod, are commonly found in snow at this time of year. Here's what gave them the nickname, "snow ...

A third person has died in a rash of poisonings from wild, foraged mushrooms in California, health officials report.

While technically called springtails, snow fleas ( Hypogastruna nivicola) are a springtail species active during winter. Snow ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters ...