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Showing posts with label cartwheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartwheel. Show all posts

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Downhill racer



Scientists know about three spiders that roll, rather than walk, down sand dunes. Now they’ve found one that propels itself with handsprings.

The palm-size arachnid gets a running start and flings itself into a continuous cartwheel, which can move it along at almost 5 mph. LINK