{"id":4624,"date":"2016-02-17T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:15:03","slug":"when-snails-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/when-snails-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"When snails fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4625\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/F1.large_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4625\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/F1.large_-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"A sea butterfly at different stages of a wing beat. (Photo credit: David Murphy.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea butterfly at different stages of a wing beat. (Photo credit: David Murphy.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A snail that flies may sound like science-fiction, but it\u2019s not &#8211; quite. The <em>Limacina helicina<\/em>, a zooplanktonic sea butterfly, is a type of sea snail (the \u201cbutterfly\u201d is a misnomer) that moves through the water in the same way a fruit fly flies, by moving its wings in a figure eight pattern. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using a new 3D system with high speed cameras researchers were able to capture details of the wings\u2019 movement through the water.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/content\/219\/4\/465.1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Experimental Biology\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David W. Murphy, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A snail that flies may sound like science-fiction, but it\u2019s not &#8211; quite. The Limacina helicina, a zooplanktonic sea butterfly, is a type of sea snail (the \u201cbutterfly\u201d is a misnomer) that moves through the water in the same way a fruit fly flies, by moving its wings in a figure eight pattern. Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,917],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1cA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}