These seabirds poop on the fly (literally)

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It wasn't quite the eureka moment a team of scientists in Japan had set out for. Leo Uesaka, a marine biologist at the University of Tokyo, planned to study how seabirds use their legs to take flight from the ocean surface. He secured matchbox-sized cameras to the undersides of 15 streaked shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas), a Pacific Ocean petrel species, to observe their movements. The tiny, tail-facing cameras successfully recorded information on the birds' legs.