Science Nation: The Secret of a Snake's Slither

Red, black, and white snakes in a tube. People in white lab coats and gloves are in the background. Caption: They can go many places things with arms and legs can't.

Snakes certainly make it look easy when they slither forward, leaving perfect S-curve tracks behind them, but scientists have long been puzzled by the mechanics of their locomotion. Now, after a series of experiments and some computer modeling, David Hu has cracked the case. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he’s using math to determine how snakes slither and it turns out they move in a much different way than scientists have long thought.

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  • Science Nation: The Secret of a Snake's Slither

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