Researchers have made a fascinating and honestly pretty cute finding about sea turtles: Some are using their flippers not just for swimming, but also to help forage for food or capture prey, like big awkward arms.

Sea turtles limbs have evolved mostly for locomotion, not for manipulating prey, lead study author Jessica Fujii, a researcher with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a Wednesday press release. But that theyre doing it anyway suggests that, even if its not the most efficient or effective way, its better than not using them at all.

Through directly observing sea turtles and also watching crowdsourced videos of the aquatic reptiles, scientists saw them using their flippers for things like digging, pushing themselves off of objects, and, in the case of one loggerhead turtle, rolling a scallop across the ocean floor.

One photo of a green turtle swiping at a jellyfish even looks as if the turtle is karate chopping the creature, The Telegraph noted.