The sidewinder, known formally as Crotalus cerastes, has mastered the art of traversing the sandy deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

The amazing sidewinder rattlesnake propels itself across hot desert sand leaving twisted trails in its wake. The snake’s impressive heat vision enables it to thrive in the desert where prey is ...

A close-up on snake skin helped scientists work out what might help certain snakes navigate sandy surfaces. By Asher Elbein When it comes to slithering, most snakes do it the same way: straight ...

The sidewinder rattlesnake, renowned as the world's fastest snake, exhibits a unique lateral undulation movement. This enables it to swiftly traverse hot desert terrains. Equipped with specialized ...

One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes could inspire new technologies for robots that could perform search and rescue missions, carry out inspections of hazardous wastes and even ...

Sidewinder snakes most likely phased out the spikes along their bellies in favor of a smoother belly that can move with no frictional drag. Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Sidewinder snakes are venomous ...

Scientists recently studied one of the best sand-travelers in the animal kingdom – the sidewinder rattlesnake. After they analyzed its movement patterns and applied them to an existing snake ...

A sidewinder snake is shown in a sand-filled trackway at Zoo Atlanta. Researchers from Georgia Tech, Carnegie-Mellon University, Zoo Atlanta and Oregon State University studied the snakes to ...

Researchers have coaxed a robotic snake to slither like a sidewinder in hopes of developing truly all-terrain robots that could help hunt for people in collapsed buildings, inspect the innards of ...

Meet the Sidewinder Mini. The Sidewinder is already a pretty pocketable blade, but the Mini version is considerably more so. Tapping into the red-hot tiny knife trend, this ultra-compact knife easily ...

Carnegie Mellon's modular robotic snake is able to traverse sandy environments, thanks to lessons learned from sidewinder snakes. Snake-bot scales sandy slopes with sidewinder slither - CNET X ...