A beetle in the family Hydrophilidae – one of its relations has been recorded walking upside down Martin Siepmann/imageBROKER/Alamy
It isn’t a circus trick. An Australian beetle has been seen walking upside down in a pool of water, on the underside of the water’s surface. Researchers think it is a style of locomotion that has never been recorded before in an animal with legs.
John Gould at the University of Newcastle in Australia came across the beetle (in the family Hydrophilidae) by chance while searching for tadpoles during fieldwork in the Watagan …
source: newscientist.com