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This multipronged approach revealed that while other reptiles have evolved many snakelike traits -- 25 different groups of lizards also lost their limbs, for instance -- only snakes experienced this level of explosive diversification.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

“And it’s hard to think of an actor with a naturally hungrier look than Ron Cephas Jones, the tall, beanpole-thin, snakelike actor who portrays the title character.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Small fish float belly-up alongside snakelike tubes of irrigation piping.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2023

It is accompanied by changes to the jet stream, which develops a wavy, snakelike pattern as it circles the globe.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

As they drew nearer, however, his face shone through the gloom, hairless, snakelike, with slits for nostrils and gleaming red eyes whose pupils were vertical.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling