Akin to Marylin Monroe’s skirt incident, the jellyfish’s creates both upward, downward and side motion.

The grebe’s unique foot design and paddling motion lifts the four-pound bird out of the water for up to seven seconds a distance of 65 ft. at almost nine mph without any wing thrust.

The fluctuating, symphonic buzz of locusts, the splashing water of a nearby bathing robin, and the piercing beams of the sunshine remind me it’s July again in the Midwest. So what can humans learn about sustainably keeping cool from the three-tiered thermal regulation system of the bottlenose dolphin?