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A Shorebird Defies Gravity to Eat (1 of 4)

Caption: Red-neck Phalarope feeding on the water surface. This image relates to an article that appeared in the May 16, 2008 issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Manu Prakash and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., was titled "Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet."

Credit: Image courtesy of Rainey Shuler

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