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Watch a Snake Swim Through Sand Thanks to High Speed X-Ray Equipment

Using X-ray equipment that allowed them to watch the animals move through a bed of dry sand, Georgia Tech researchers have studied how the shovel-nosed snake and sandfish lizard use their unique body plans to swim through sand. Information provided by the research could help explain how evolutionary pressures have affected body shape in sand-dwelling animals. (Credit: Jason Maderer)

[GeorgiaTech GIT | Via IO9]

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