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uncommon
Springtail
Anurida maritima
- Habitat
- Coastal tide pools and rotting wood, globally
- Body length
- 3 mm
- Order
- Collembola · Neanuridae
Weird but real
Can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Has existed for 400 million years, predating dinosaurs by 170 million.
Why it's cool
Looks like nothing special. Predates literally everything. Saw the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and just kept springing.
