The mesmerizing flow of a sidewinder moving obliquely across desert sands has captivated biologists for centuries and has been variously studied over the years, but questions remained about how the ...

In the vast kingdom of snakes, few species are as uniquely adapted—or as mesmerizing—as the sidewinder rattlesnake. Known for its distinctive, sideways undulating movement that allows it to glide ...

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Modsnake represents a new development in the design of robotic snakes, with a locomotion system based on a highly-successful trait of a familiar desert reptile. Sidewinder snakes are able to slither ...

Lots of scientists use animals to make robots better, but a new study published in Science uses a robotic model to better understand the animal that inspired it. Sidewinder snakes are unusually good ...