Fleas' movements on camera were completely consistent with the idea of fleas jumping from their toes, the experts say. For instance, in 12 percent of the insects' jumps, knees never even made ...

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 ...

The legendary abilities of jumping fleas, too, may be just that — a fairy tale. Both locusts and bugs called froghoppers jump faster and with wider ranges than the itchy flea, he says.

New research sheds light on how fleas jump, reaching speeds as fast as 1.9 meters per second. Using high-speed recording equipment and sophisticated mathematical models, scientists were able to ...

Fleas jump more quickly and with more force than would be possible using muscle. This mystery was solved in 1967, when researcher Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that the fleas, using an elastic pad ...

If you could jump like a flea, you’d be traveling 3,000 miles an hour within a thousandth of a second. You can’t do it, so how do they manage? That’s the 350-year-old question I consider in ...

And when the flea lets go of the latch, they just jump. Narrator: Now, that makes fleas difficult to capture and kill, but it's what they do once they land that makes them a truly terrifying pest.

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 ...