UFO cross-section gives snakes a lift

Snakes aren't usually renowned for their ability to fly, but Chrysopelea snakes from southeast Asia regularly launch themselves from trees into the air gliding for 10s of meters before touch down. In a bid to understand how these animals remain airborne, Jake Socha and colleagues from Virginia Tech and Purdue University made a model of the snake's unusual body shape and measured the forces created by the animals to discover how they glide.

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