A tethered cell with eight flagella does a rough breaststroke in place | Science News

The single-celled Arctic alga Pyramimonus octopus coordinates eight flagella when it swims. Even when tethered in place, the cell’s opposite pairs curl and uncurl in what biophysicist Kirsty Wan, of the University of Exeter in England, calls a rotary breaststroke. Read more: Video: K. Wan