As unusual governmental research grants go, investigations into flying snakes seems pretty unusual; however, that's just what the US Defense Department has been doing, funding researchers at Virginia ...

Snakes without a plane This may be the last thing that anyone with a touch of ophidiophobia — fear of snakes — would want to hear: flying snakes have surprisingly good aerodynamic qualities.

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 ...

Flying snakes glide through the air, flattening their bodies to provide lift. But as they glide they seem to swim, undulating their bodies from side to side. Now a team in the United States has used ...

Add flying snakes to the ever-growing list of insects and reptiles getting their time in the spotlight during a year in which people are probably looking into online zoology courses. A recent study ...

Researchers explore the lift production mechanism of flying snakes, which undulate side-to-side as they move from the tops of trees to the ground to escape predators or to move around quickly and ...

KERI: A gliding snake entered a house in Ghoteli, Sattari, on Wednesday, creating a minor commotion in the household. Wildlife enthusiast Vitthal Shelke was called to rescue the snake. The reptile ...

The secret to a flying snake’s ability to slither through the air is in its streamlined simplicity, researchers say. In certain tropical forests of Asia, small snakes (not much wider than your thumb) ...

It has no wings and no engine — just a long, slim body. But the paradise tree snake effortlessly glides up to 32 feet (10 meters) through the air from tree to tree. Now, physicists are starting to ...

A snake jumping out a window looks nothing like a paper airplane. Few snakes do anything but fall, but the paradise flying snake widens and flattens its body as if trying to catch some lift. And ...