Limbless Locomotion.
Sliding, sidewinding, saltation and more: how serpents
have adapted to life without legs.
Zoologist and conservation biologist
Kit Prendergast tackles the science of
slithering....
The Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes) is named after its preferred method of locomotion,
and can ascend steep, sandy dunes without slipping. Image by fivespots.