ABC7

Flying snakes? Here's how they can glide through the air

For some, the sight of a snake slithering on the ground is scary enough, so how about one launching itself through the air? Chrysopelea paradisi -- the paradise tree snake -- does just that, ...
Inverse

Study reveals why flying snakes can glide through the air

When you imagine a snake you likely think of its slither — a limbless wiggle through sand or brush. However, that stereotype limits the snake: Chrysopelea, a genus of snakes, seemingly fly as they ...
nerdist

Scientists Find ‘Flying Snakes’ Glide Due to Their Wiggle

Researchers have analyzed the way paradise tree snakes glide through the air, and found that the way they wiggle is paramount to their aerial prowess. This observation, the researchers say, not only ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Mystery of how flying snakes move is solved by scientists

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Flying snakes are able to undulate their bodies as they glide through the air, and those unique movements allow them to take flight, scientists have found. These snakes, such ...
WTAE-TV

Snakes can glide through the air — and this is how

For some, the sight of a snake slithering on the ground is scary enough, so how about one launching itself through the air?Chrysopelea paradisi — the paradise tree snake — does just that, propelling ...
Ars Technica

Undulating their bodies keeps flying snakes from tumbling out of control

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 ...
NBC News

Tree Snake Turns Into a Flying Saucer to Perform UFO Trick

A flying snake flattens out into a weird flying-saucer shape in order to get some extra airtime, new research suggests. The findings, published Wednesday in The Journal of Experimental Biology, show ...
WHDH

Flying snakes? Here’s how they can glide through the air

(CNN) — For some the sight of a snake slithering on the ground is scary enough, so how about one launching itself through the air? Chrysopelea paradisi — the paradise tree snake — does just that, ...
KCCI Des Moines

Snakes can glide through the air — and this is how

For some, the sight of a snake slithering on the ground is scary enough, so how about one launching itself through the air?Chrysopelea paradisi — the paradise tree snake — does just that, propelling ...
WREG

Flying snakes? Here’s how they can glide through the air

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA (CNN Newsource) – For some the sight ...
Penn Live

Flying snakes? Here’s how they can glide through the air: study

Cloudy, with a chance of....snakes? Depending on where one lives, precipitation is not the only thing that falls from the sky. Chrysopelea paradisi - the paradise tree snake - does just that, ...