The flea's astonishing ability to jump 100 times its height has fascinated and infuriated cat and dog owners for millennia. Now Cambridge scientists have finally cracked the mystery of how the ...

If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an ...

In the insect world, the creatures that can jump the fastest and highest have the best chance to escape predators. Now, a British zoologist has discovered that the common crop-eating pest called the ...

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No, not rabbits or frogs. Fleas. Using new tools like high-speed video, researchers with the University of Cambridge in England have shown that fleas take off from their tibiae and tarsi — the insect ...

Fleas perform an amazing feat when they jump, and the mechanics behind the tiny, bloodsucking pests' acrobatics have been studied -- and debated -- for a long time. But new research may have settled ...