All "land animals" (tetrapods) started off as fish who grew legs (hence the name) Snakes did, in fact, start as some kind of lizardlike thing that lost its legs before it evolved most of the other traits that make lizards lizards
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"Legless lizards" as distinct from snakes just ditched the legs later on in their history And the cool thing about them is this didn't happen just one time -- the different families of legless lizards lost their legs in independent evolutionary events
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Snakes are basically the hipsters of not having legs "Yeah we were slithering before it was cool, we never evolved all this fancy shit like having ears You poseur fucks"
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Fine I’ll spend the next hour googling this.
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I mean yeah if you believe in “evolution”
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Either selection happens through a random Darwinian process or God is a sloppy drunk
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What's amazing to me is that my SO has a snake phobia but it's so specific that legless lizards don't appear to trigger it.
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Could that be because they move differently? Couldn't help but notice there's just something different about how the awkward movements this fellow moves compared to the eerie grace and smoothness of a snake's movement
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Crustaceans tend to evolve to resemble crabs. We call this carcinization. We need a similar term for lizards. Serpenization? Does that make snakes the crabs of the land? Does that make cetaceans the crabs of the sea? wait
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My favourites are things like three toed skinks, with long bodies and teeny tiny legs, it's like seeing evolution in action!
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