{"id":217090,"date":"2025-07-03T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/slithering-snakes-the-science-behind-the-motion-of-a-young-anaconda"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:22:20","slug":"slithering-snakes-the-science-behind-the-motion-of-a-young-anaconda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/slithering-snakes-the-science-behind-the-motion-of-a-young-anaconda","title":{"rendered":"Slithering snakes: The science behind the motion of a young anaconda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slithering-snakes-the-science-behind-the-motion-of-a-young-anaconda.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly.<\/p>\n<p>Together with herpetologists, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered and quantified a new type of locomotion in juvenile anacondas.<\/p>\n<p>As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young anacondas are much more spry\u2014capable of a quick, one-off, skating movement the researchers dubbed the \u201cS-start\u201d due to the shape the snake makes with its body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly. Together with herpetologists, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered and quantified a new type of locomotion in juvenile anacondas. As adults, these large snakes are better known for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}