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Word: springtail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Antarctic sunlight, mosses, lichens and even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Very Cold Facts | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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