I Found a Snake with Legs
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Published 2022-03-17
Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
All Comments (21)
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Nature:alright snake your legs are ready card declined Nature:
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When you skip leg day for 170 million years
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Ancient snake: "and that's why you must give me wings" Nature: "nice speech, say goodbye to your legs!"
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Essentially this the the reptile equivalent of us having a tailbone
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Bro’s legs stopped downloading at 2% 💀
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Bruh imagine if a cobra run to you with legs 💀💀💀
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Vestigial organs are always fun to bring up when discussing evolution
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The Book of Genesis talks about snakes losing their legs.
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"So I was checking out python" Just a casual day
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“Some Reptilians can regenerate limbs” snake:
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Serpent: hey eve eat that fruit Also serpent: loses legs
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I swear if those legs start evolving humanity might end earlier than we expected
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Snake: I may need em in a few million years again so I’m still hanging onto em
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This brings "you Didn't have to cut me off" to another level.
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Those spikes r for latching onto a mate. Not legs
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Pelvic spurs (also known as vestigial legs) are external protrusions found around the cloaca in certain superfamilies of snakes , not legs just found on some species of male snakes used for mating
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They’re not completely useless; these vestigial legs are used during mating.
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The guy said "Grow a pair" and the python really tried.
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Cloaca spurs or pelvic spurs used in mating and fighting
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They lost their limbs because a ancestor told eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
