“You can’t do a straight-down burrow because the sand or sediment falls on you. The way to go straight down is to make a helix,” says J. Sean Doody, an associate professor in the department of ...

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There's plenty of air in the tiny spaces between grains of sand; the problem for sand-burrowing animals is how to get that air into their lungs while keeping the sand out ...

The Woma python, also known as the sand python or Ramsay's python, has a lot in common with other burrowing snakes. It has a diminutive head and small eyes and reaches a length of about five feet.