How the short legs of juvenile water striders propel the insects across water has perplexed researchers. It now appears that walking on water shares features with the locomotion of birds, insects and fish.
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Dickinson, M. How to walk on water. Nature 424, 621–622 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424621a
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