Fastest swimming snake
- Who
- Yellow-bellied sea snake
- What
- 1 metre(s) per second
- When
- 01 January 0001
The fastest swimming snake is the yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus), which has been timed at speeds of up to 1 m/sec over short distances.
So evolved is this species for an exclusively aquatic existence that it is totally helpless on land if beached there.