{"id":679803,"date":"2021-02-01T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=679803"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:00:05","slug":"physics-of-snakeskin-sheds-light-on-sidewinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=679803","title":{"rendered":"Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most snakes get from A to B by bending their bodies into S-shapes and slithering forward headfirst. A few species, however\u2014found in the deserts of North America, Africa and the Middle East\u2014have an odder way of getting around. Known as &#8220;sidewinders,&#8221; these snakes lead with their mid-sections instead of their heads, slinking sideways across loose sand.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-02-physics-snakeskin-sidewinding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most snakes get from A to B by bending their bodies into S-shapes and slithering forward headfirst. A few species, however\u2014found in the deserts of North America, Africa and the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}