When you imagine a snake you likely think of its slither — a limbless wiggle through sand or brush. However, that stereotype limits the snake: Chrysopelea, a genus of snakes, seemingly fly as they ...

They rank among the fastest snakes in the world, using lateral undulation to move over 12mph. With lateral undulation, the snake bends its body into an “S” shape, propelling itself forward by pushing ...

Fossil skin like this is invaluable because, for starters, it’s the first time we’ve ever found soft tissues preserved for ...

Flying snakes can glide as far as 78 feet (24 meters) without tumbling out of control because they undulate their bodies mid-flight, as if they were swimming through the air. This seems to be a ...

Snake-haters, look away – and, whatever you do, don’t look up. Scientists have discovered that brown tree snakes can use a lasso-like movement to climb large, smooth cylindrical objects – a way of ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – For the first time in more than 100 years, researchers have discovered a new mode of locomotion in snakes. Researchers from Colorado State University found at least one ...

DENVER — When it’s Monday morning and a study about snakes hits your inbox, sometimes it’s best to lean in, absorb some mad snake knowledge and hope there’s enough time between watching the videos and ...

Scientists have discovered a new technique that some snakes use to climb trees. The previously unknown mode of locomotion was observed in the brown treesnake, which forms a loop around a trunk with ...

"We watched that part of the video about 15 times. It was a shocker. Nothing I'd ever seen compares to it." Eric Mack Contributing Editor Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

Fishes with internalized and endothermic red muscles (i.e. tunas and lamnid sharks) are known for a stiff-bodied form of undulatory swimming, based on unique muscle—tendon architecture that limits ...

"In this experimental and theoretical study, we investigate the slithering of snakes on flat surfaces. Previous studies of slithering have rested on the assumption that snakes slither by pushing ...