Concrete roads may help cars go fast, but they slow down snakes, new research finds. During that time, about 70 cars may pass over a well-used highway to the New Jersey coast. On sand, a trip the same distance would last only 45 seconds, said Dane Ward, a doctoral student in environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. "It seems that the snake is having difficulty generating enough lateral thrust to move itself farther," he told Live Science.
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