The amazing sidewinder rattlesnake propels itself across hot desert sand leaving twisted trails in its wake. The snake’s ...

Researchers studied sidewinder snakes to understand the unique motion they use to climb sandy slopes. Shown (l-r) are Dan Goldman of Georgia Tech, Hamid Marvi of Carnegie Mellon and Joe Mendelson ...

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

Meet the Sidewinder: a sculpture masquerading as a knife, with an innovative opening mechanism that mimics the smooth motion of a snake slithering over the sand, coiling and twisting with grace and ...

Arizona’s Saguaro National Park is situated in the Sonoran desert ... the Arizona black rattlesnake, western diamondback rattlesnake, tiger rattlesnake, sidewinder, Mojave rattlesnake and ...

These snakes anchor their belly scales at several points along their body and use them to very slowly pull the sections in between forwards along the ground. Then there are sidewinder snakes. These ...

A sidewinder rattlesnake moving on sand. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 10, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Hamidreza Marvi at Georgia ...

Warhead: Annular blast fragmentation (conventional) weighing 20.8 pounds (9.36 kg) The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a family of short-range air-to-air missiles carried on a wide range of modern tactical ...

The Sidewinder Mini features the same one-of-a-kind opening system as the original Sidewinder but in a much smaller package. Craighill What’s more, the tiny snake-inspired knife is more than four ...

Snakes can grow to colossal sizes, although some reports have long been exaggerated. The largest snakes in the world belong to the python and boa families. Which family contains the biggest depends on ...