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The burrowing origin of modern snakes

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Trade-offs between eating and moving: what happens to the locomotion of slender arboreal snakes when they eat big prey?

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Highly extensible skeletal muscle in snakes

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A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

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Snakes mimic earthworms: propulsion using rectilinear travelling waves

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Interactions between internal forces, body stiffness, and fluid environment in a neuromechanical model of lamprey swimming

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