These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers have new videos of tiny Southeast Asian snakes, eleven to twenty-eight centimeters long, cartwheeling to escape danger, Science News reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAt full speed they tumble up to thirteen kilometers an hour.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy hot take: this is a snake finally owning its brand.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNobody calls it fleeing when it is a gymnastics program with a head that stays pointed forward.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot. That's a snake running away, and you gave it a coach.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMine is simple. A biologist who was not involved said the study reminded her of old hoop snake tales she had dismissed as fantastical.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIf she was wrong about that, what else is a snake doing when we aren't looking?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. Not hot enough to cartwheel, but hot.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWait, that was hot? Dale just said the snakes are doing things in secret.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorVera, they hide under leaves. That is literally the secret.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine, I'll say it. The researchers couldn't catch a single one that cartwheeled away, because the snakes hide under leaves and the team was quicker.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the researchers beat the snakes in a race, and the snakes still got away. My final take: they should have rolled too.