enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Rectilinear locomotion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectilinear_locomotion

   Rectilinear locomotion relies upon two opposing muscles, the costocutaneous inferior and superior, which are present on every rib and connect the ribs to the skin. [5] [6] Although it was originally believed that the ribs moved in a "walking" pattern during rectilinear movement, studies have shown that the ribs themselves do not move, only the muscles and the skin move to produce forward ...

3. Concertina movement - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina_movement

   Concertina movement is the method by which a snake or other organism anchors itself with sections of itself and pulls or pushes with other sections to move in the direction it wants to go. To spring forward a snake may require a rough surface to thrust back against. [1] [2] It is named after the concertina musical instrument. [citation needed]

4. 'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ...

   www.aol.com/magnificent-creatures-photos-show...

   A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...

5. Sidewinding - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewinding

   Sidewinding is a type of locomotion unique to snakes, used to move across loose or slippery substrates. It is most often used by the Saharan horned viper, Cerastes cerastes , the Mojave sidewinder rattlesnake , Crotalus cerastes , and the Namib desert sidewinding adder, Bitis peringueyi , to move across loose desert sands, and also by ...

6. Are there benefits to having snakes around? Here's what ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/benefits-having-snakes-around-heres...

   Copperhead “There's only one venomous snake that's really common in suburban areas,” said Sollenberger. And that's the copperhead. They can grow up to 4 feet long.

7. Anaconda - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda

   Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes.They are a semiaquatic group of snakes found in tropical South America.Three to five extant and one extinct species are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, E. murinus, the green anaconda.

8. These snakes not only fake their own deaths, they use gory ...

   www.aol.com/news/snakes-not-only-fake-own...

   For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

9. Boidae - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boidae

   The quadrate bones are also elongated, but not as much, while both are capable of moving freely so when they swing sideways to their maximum extent, the distance between the hinges of the lower jaw is greatly increased. [4] Cloaca region of a Boa constrictor with spurs (rudimentary hindlegs) Both families share a number of primitive ...