Assam keelback spotted for the first time in 129 years
The Assam keelback has been rediscovered by the Wildlife Institute of India near a reserve forest on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
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This caterpillar can turn itself into a snake!
When you’re an easy target for a number of predators the ability to turn yourself into a snake is a handy one. The snake mimic caterpillar can do just that.
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Snake robots — from surgery to search ‘n’ rescue
Snakebots, modular robots that look like snakes, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, can twist in many directions and move — slithering, swimming — like their namesake animal.
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