The cool thing about snakes vs legless lizards is how legs are a trait that animals evolve out of and then evolve back into multiple times through their evolutionary history Same with cetaceans (originally coming from the fish form factor and then going back to it)https://twitter.com/Faith_Salie/status/1366576401017626624 …
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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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As I recall whether that lizardlike thing would be considered a lizard is a matter of debate. (or at least it was it's been a couple years since I've checked on that particular discussion)
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