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Birds fly, and fish swim. We learn this when we are children. But not everything in nature is quite so simple… Meet Limacina helicina, an artic-dwelling sea butterfly that flies through the water.

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Sources:
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/219/4/535
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00397570
https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/77/m077p125.pdf

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