Snake Discovered With Clawed Foot

[MrGFunk]

"Won't know until they've done the autopsy" ey...

Could be a snake ate a young alligator and the claw burst through the body?

Probably not though.

 

[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.

Isn't that a form of conjoined twins?

Well yes, but it's still a mutation.

 

[messy]

Why would she kill something like this?

Yeah shame isn't it? If the snake had lived to pass on it's mutated genes then we might have had a whole new evolutionary branch of one-legged snakes!

Not quite sure thats going to happen, whats the survival advantage. Makes it look much more awkward to move/mate/feed/kill etc.

Now a two headed snakes that's essentially a killing machine.

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.

We can still mutate, but evolution means they have to be beneficial, passed in through generations and eventually create a new species. Its takes millions of years, so we have probably stopped evolving; with health care there's no selection pressures I.E we can survive illness with medicine so have a natural immunity isn't a massive advantage (well not for the species as a hole for the individual its pretty good I imagine)

 

[theultimateend]

I'd love to see a snake with more legs. This is amazing though. Why would she kill something like this? My first reaction would be to try to trap it somehow and call the cops or something.

Women are far more attracted to killing innocent things than men.

If it isn't some guys soul it is a poor snake .

 

[Zac_Dai]

Looks like a vertebral HOX gene overexpression in the thoratic area.

Is that the scientific term for the facts snakes still possess little bony stubs on their spines. A left over from millions of years ago when they did indeed have legs. Thus snakes still have the ability to grow legs.

Or are you just trying to blag it?

 

[Archemetis]

Well, that's being added to the "things I can say "Back in my day" about when i'm old" list.

"Back in my day snakes didn't have feet... OR EVEN LIMBS!"

people will think I'm mad.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

"The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life"
-Genesis 3:14

"Fuck you. You can't tell me what to do."
-Snake with claws

Was wondering if I was the only person thinking of that, I'm surprised there weren't any religious fanatics freaking out about this.

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

now, will the snake still slither and use the claqw for just grabbing.... or is it trying to hop around? that would be hillarious to watch

 

[GrinningManiac]

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH

It's the Dragon from MULAN!!

RUN!

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

Lest he deafen you with constant stereotypes of Cool Black Dude

 

[HentMas]

Oh Shi--

Wait, does this mean snake legs will soon be a new type of delicacy?

well... if it´s alive someone will eat it haha

 

[martin's a madman]

I wouldn't call it evolution, considering snakes had limbs before I am pretty sure. So wouldn't be classified as a de-evolution?

 

[IxionIndustries]

The Dragon Age is upon us! Repent! REPEEEEENT!

EDIT: That *****, she killed it! At least let it breed! I WANT AN ASIAN LUNG DRAGON FOR A PET DAMMIT!

 

[Soxafloppin]

'the thickness of a little finger'

Looks a hell of alot thicker in that picture.

 

[Insanum]

Am i the only one that thinks its eaten a chicken & its having indigestion?

Although the thought of a two headed snake attacking its other head amuses me.

 

[Jamash]

Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death

As sad as it is that she killed this unique creature, I can't help but laugh at the fact she went all Del Preston on it's arse.

"...but the one legged snake... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat it to death with a shoe".

 

[infinisynth]

Coolest thing i've seen all week. Would have made me squeal like a little girl and jump on a chair probably.

 

[Hot'n'steamy]

Looks like a vertebral HOX gene overexpression in the thoratic area.

Is that the scientific term for the facts snakes still possess little bony stubs on their spines. A left over from millions of years ago when they did indeed have legs. Thus snakes still have the ability to grow legs.

Or are you just trying to blag it?

HOX genes are homeo-box genes. Look them up.

Just because snakes have vestigial femoral studs on the vertebrae they do not retain the "ability to grow legs". We have a vestigial rumen in the form of an appendix, we don't have "the ability grow a multi chambered stomach" by your reasoning.

This is kinda my subject area.

 

[The_Chief]

ew, that thing just looks nasty. it's got a little alligator foot.
funny how the woman beat it to death with a shoe, lol

oh irony. [sup]well atleast i found it ironic[/sup]

 

[RedDiablo]

Wish I had that for a pet.

 

[Worgen]

actualy finding snakes with vestigial legs isnt that uncommon, what is uncommon is for one that developed, its actualy a throw back to when snakes had legs, chances are when it was in the egg one of the proteins that would prevent legs from growing was missing or didnt work so it ended up with a leg. Dolphins and whales sometimes have vestigial legs also altho its much more common to just find the bones of them in the skeleton then to find them sticking out