Rows are engines, grouped by what they push against; columns are realms. Read along a row to watch one piece of physics get reinvented in unrelated worlds.
The whole tree as an indented list, with who does each motion and its variants.
Every known way living things get from here to there, by motion
Every distinct motion living things use to get around, from a bacterium's rotary motor to an albatross riding the wind.
Rows are engines, grouped by what they push against; columns are realms. Read along a row to watch one piece of physics get reinvented in unrelated worlds.
The whole tree as an indented list, with who does each motion and its variants.
Rules for this tree: one tip per distinct motion; body plan, habitat and material go in the examples, never in the structure; realms follow what the animal pushes against, not where it lives. Named modes from the standard vocabularies (Breder and Webb for fish, Hildebrand for gaits, Henrichsen for bacterial surface motility, Jayne for snakes) appear as variants or alternative names. Extinct forms appear where fossils make the motion clear. Seeds and spores sit at the edge on purpose: those organisms don't move, but their offspring use the same physics.