A resource of Biophilia: Pittsburgh, #bioPGH is a weekly blog and social media series that aims to encourage both children and adults to reconnect with nature and enjoy what each of our distinctive seasons has to offer. 

Like the bouncy song says, sometimes we all need to “move it, move it;” and from amoebas to insects to sunflowers to humans, nature has quite a variety of ways to help us all move from Point A to Point B! Across the living world, there are a variety of strategies that living things use to move, but here is just a taster of some of the themes and trends we see behind the phenomenon of locomotion!

Photo © Phil Johnson II