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A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes

Science Magazine Podcast

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The Evolution of Ventral Scales in Snakes

Tika Athanasia is a senior lecturer in the genetics and evolution department at the University of Geneva. She says snakes need to align their ventral scales with muscles, ribs so that they can move around well. Tika: The possibility of disrupting genes will be very helpful to better understand what's going on.

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