00:00A single droplet of water rests under a microscope, but this tiny sea is far from calm.
00:06Thousands of squiggly white worms known as nematodes, or more specifically vinegar eels,
00:11surge through the droplet, gathering at its center and running laps around its edges.
00:17Scientists have discovered more than 25,000 species of nematodes living all over the world,
00:23each of them with their own quirks.
00:25And for the vinegar eels, that quirk is dancing.
00:29Like birds or fish, vinegar eels travel in swarms.
00:32When scientists watched these nematodes swim under the microscope,
00:36they saw the eels move randomly around the droplet at first, but after an hour, a strange order emerged.
00:42The eels started swimming in synchronous, moving in the same direction at the same time,
00:47and even oscillating their bodies back and forth with the same rhythm.
00:51Scientists don't know how or why vinegar eels swim this way, but they know they're a force to be reckoned
00:55with.
00:56Once the nematodes started swimming in sync,
00:59they exerted a force on the droplet that could move an object more than 100 times the weight of their
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01:04Now that is one funky flash mob.
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