Snakes which fly

Great Health Divide. Gas Buddy. Taste Of The Ozarks. Leigh's Lost and Found. Try Before You Buy. National Results Map. About KY3. Meet the Team. Job Openings. Submit Photos and Videos. How snakes fly—often around feet from one treetop to another—has long been of interest to Jake Socha, a professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech. For the past two decades, Socha has measured and modeled the biomechanics of snake flight. All snakes in the Chrysopelea family—the only known limbless vertebrates capable of flight—glide in the same manner.

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