What better way to celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake than by reading about how paradise tree snakes fly?

Yep, snakes fly.

They take off with a jump, shape themselves into a flattened, undulating "wing body", and glide down some 8.3m.

🧪 🌍 🐍
Paper by J. Socha:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0935-4