When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

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A little-studied mite native to California, the Paratarsotomus macropalpis, has the "fastest relative speed" of any animal on the planet. "The mite runs at a relative speed of … nearly 200 body ...

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Everybody knows that a cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal. But what if you take the size of the animal into account? If you measure speed by body-length-per-second, a tiny mite about the size ...

A mite found in Southern California has broken the record to become the fastest land animal in the world. The mite Paratarsotomus macropalpis, which is no bigger than a sesame seed, was studied by a ...

The history of humanity’s grand sweep around the world is recorded in our genes and genealogies, our art and artifacts, our literature and languages. It’s also written in the legions of tiny mites ...

You may think a cheetah would be hard to beat, but researchers have found that, for its size, a tiny California beetle is actually the fastest animal ever found. Paratarsotomus macropalpis is no ...

Proportional to body size, a tiny and little-studied mite from California turns out to be the fastest running animal on the planet. Juveniles of the 1mm-long predator can run more than 300 times their ...

A little-studied mite native to California, the Paratarsotomus macropalpis, has the "fastest relative speed" of any animal on the planet. "The mite runs at a relative speed of … nearly 200 body ...