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Published online 26 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.915
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How to walk on water
Water snails crawl along under the water surface on ripples of slime.
Some water snails have an extraordinary way of getting around: they crawl upside down at the water's surface. A team of US researchers may now have figured out how they do it.
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