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A corkscrew is chiral, if that's what you're asking.

• hprotagonist 5y ago
  right, so do they prefer one orientation over the other? Are these (E)-lizards or (Z)-lizards or a racemic mixture of the two? The world must know!
  • jjp 5y ago
    See Scientific American blog post [1] which has a drawing from the paper author. [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goannas-dig-the-deepest-twistiest-burrows-of-all/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goanna...
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    • hprotagonist 5y ago
      > The V. panoptes burrows start with a short sub-horizontal section, then have a long curving, descending section, at the end of which is a descending vertical helix that can have as many as eight convolutions. Some of the helices are clockwise, others are anti-clockwise, and some switch from one direction to the other (Doody et al. 2015). ok, that’s what i wanted to know. Monitor lizards are racemic.