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You might think that these creatures look like flying insects,

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but they're actually Marine snails swimming underwater.

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Marine snails use their squishy Wing leg appendages to fly Beneath

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the Sea soaring towards the ocean surface to search for food

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and then sinking back down again to rest the snails are nicknamed

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see butterflies in reference to their graceful fluttering

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Wings in a new study scientists found at Sea butterflies

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with long thin shells are able to cut through the water more

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quickly than those in round tightly coiled shells.

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That's partly because the sea butterflies with long cells tend to

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be bigger with larger wings.

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So they can more easily overcome the resistance of the water

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around them in addition the snails elongated shells help them

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slip to the water more easily carving through the water similar

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to how an airplane wing slips through the air but whatever

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their shape for Speed the tiny snails all travel about 54 to 328

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yards per day to gather food.

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Remember a football field is only a hundred yards long.

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So that's a lie.

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Way for a less than inch long snails swim.

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The study authors plan to One Day designs tiny underwater

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Vehicles inspired by sea butterflies and other creatures

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that fly both above and below the ways.