Snake Discovered With Clawed Foot

[megapenguinx]

Coolio. It reminds me of the 2 headed snake they had at the San Diego Zoo a long while back. That foot actually looked like a chicken foot....

 

[wootsniper]

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH

It's the Dragon from MULAN!!

RUN!

if it really is the dragon from mulan... why run?

 

[Malkavian]

IIRC, snakes used to have feet. You can still see odd protubances on them, which is all that's left now. So it's not an evolution, it's rather a throwback to what snakes used to look like.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Na, that's just never unlucky ugly disabled lizard.

EDIT: I think this snake must have been pretty pleased with himself.

Snake 1: Hey dude, check this out.
Snake 2: Holy shit is that a claw?!
Snake 1: Yep, pretty cool hu? I can like...grab things!
Snake 2: Wow your like a lizard or something!
Snake 1: Yer...A what?
Snake 2: You know, a lizard...don't you know what a lizard is
Snake 1: Do I know what a lizard is?! Hahaha...What is a lizard?
Snake 2: Well...It's a basically a snake. But it has claws.
Snake 1: What!? Ahh jesus I don't believe this...
Snake 2: I'm sorry man...how could you not know...
Snake 1: Do you know how much radioactive waste I had to slither though to get this thing? I got cancer man, fucking cancer.
Snake 2: Dude I sorry man, why did you go though all that?!
Snake 1: Well...It's a claw innit.
*Wiggles claw*
Snake 2: Lizards have four claws.
Snake 1: *mimic* [i/]Lizards have four claws.[/i] Why don't you marry a lizard if you love them so much...

Yer, this is exactly what happened.

EDIT OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS: BTW, has a mutation like this ever been found before? This is the first one I've seen that could be considered somewhat benoficial.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Goddam, that's scary. One-clawed snakes? Maybe dinosaurs are re-emerging.

 

[Baby Tea]

Goddam, that's scary. One-clawed snakes? Maybe dinosaurs are re-emerging.

Or it's a freak genetic mutation and means, really, nothing.

EDIT: I will say that it looked cool, though!

 

[CuddlyCombine]

I actually found the part where he describes how the two heads of two-headed snakes can attack each other to be more interesting than the whole claw thing, but still, its quite interesting.

Except that two-headed animals have been widely-reported, while snakes with feet are more of a surprise.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Goddam, that's scary. One-clawed snakes? Maybe dinosaurs are re-emerging.

Or it's a freak genetic mutation and means, really, nothing.

EDIT: I will say that it looked cool, though!

That's what I assume, I don't expect to see a new species of clawed snakes populating China. Still though, that's a pretty big step for a random mutation: to go from nothing to a fairly well-formed clawed foot. Or maybe not. I'm not really an expert on how genetic mutations work.

 

[sirkai007]

Viva la revoluti...

Viva la evolution

Sorry for that.
Cool now we need to evolve or we are fucked

Due to modern health care, Natural selection in humans is all but stopped. Therefore we are no longer evolving.

However, did this remind anyone about the Claw Vipers of Diablo 2?

 

[Sparrow]

Wait, she beat it to death?

With a shoe?

 

[Toty54]

Solid snake was discovered wielding a clawed foot?

 

[AvsJoe]

especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.

Does this remind anybody else of that scene in the Holy Grail? Yes? No?

 

[Quaidis]

So basically snakes in china are turning into skinks ( http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/sevcik/snake-eyed-skink--ablepharus-kitaibeli.jpg ). Not that a snake with a leg isn't cool, but once it completes its quest, it would probably be reclassified as Sphenodontia - a lizard-like creature with a snake-esque jaw structure.

The mutation was more likely due to the heap of pollution in China. Does anyone remember The Host?

 

[Terramax]

Why would she kill something like this?

Yeah, think of all the games of thumbwar she couldn've had with it.

 

[bodyklok]

EDIT OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS: BTW, has a mutation like this ever been found before? This is the first one I've seen that could be considered somewhat beneficial.

Oh yeah, dude, we get shit like this all the time. You should of seen the baby born with two heads!
*Yawns*
It died a few hours after birth...

To be honest, I'd say this was quite tame in the world of freak genetic mutations, considering some of the other stuff I've seen.

I don't think it would of been that beneficial though, he had clearly survived up to that point so it wasn't killing him, but it could of hurt his chances at getting a mate or something like that... I don't know I'm not a snake sex doctor... but the point is, baby with two heads.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

EDIT OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS: BTW, has a mutation like this ever been found before? This is the first one I've seen that could be considered somewhat beneficial.

Oh yeah, dude, we get shit like this all the time. You should of seen the baby born with two heads!
*Yawns*
It died a few hours after birth...

To be honest, I'd say this was quite tame in the world of freak genetic mutations, considering some of the other stuff I've seen.

I don't think it would of been that beneficial though, he had clearly survived up to that point so it wasn't killing him, but it could of hurt his chances at getting a mate or something like that... I don't know I'm not a snake sex doctor... but the point is, baby with two heads.

Isn't that a form of conjoined twins?

 

[Jazzboy]

I cant see how one leg would really be an advantage to a snake.

I dont think we'll be seeing many more of these

 

[wheeman]

no no no, you've got it all wrong. It's not a snake with an arm, it's a lizard born without 3 legs..

Some people can be so silly

 

[Kedcom]

Viva la revoluti...

Viva la evolution

Sorry for that.
Cool now we need to evolve or we are fucked

Due to modern health care, Natural selection in humans is all but stopped. Therefore we are no longer evolving.

How about with things like new variants of flus and so on? Older people were less likely to get swine flu as they had been exposed to many previous similar strains of flu. And if cancer still kills a lot of people does that not mean that some are still being naturally selected out regardless of our attempts at intervening?

Plus better nutrition and ways of looking after ourselves has resulted in people getting taller even the last few decades and new world records are still being beaten all the time by bigger, stronger atheletes than previous ones.

I agree with you, but think we're not quite there yet. Maybe sometime in the not so distant future.