Chart source: Snakes take flight"... Most flying or gliding animals rely on a symmetrical pair ofwing-like structures to generate lift, the force that opposesgravity and keeps the flier aloft. But `flying' tree snakeshave no wings or any other obvious structures that might helpthem fly, explains Jake Socha, a biologist at Argonne NationalLaboratory, Illinois. Little was known about these enigmatic creaturesuntil Socha, then a graduate student at the University of Chicago, setout for Singapore in search of the elusive paradise tree snake ..."
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