Fastest swimming insect could serve as inspiration for uncrewed boat designs: Study

Los Angeles [US], January 8 (ANI): Whirligig beetles, the world's fastest-swimming insect, achieve astonishing speeds by using a tactic shared by fast marine animals and waterfowl, according to a study.

The centimetre-long beetles may accelerate to 100 metres per second and achieve a maximal speed of 100 body lengths per second (or one metre per second).

The study was published in Current Biology.

Not only do the findings