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[Toxi]

Don't some snakes today still have very small skeletal remnants of their lost legs? I thought this was known for decades.

Yep, pythons have little claws.

 

[dr3upmushroom]

What's with the freakout this snake would probably be slower then modern snakes.

 

[Nealand Liquor]

No.
NO.
NOOOOOOO.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

[UrokeJoe]

Meh it's no Worm Lizard
edit: Mexican Mole lizard

thatsapenis.jpg

Yep

 

[Tubobutts]

Oh god, oh god

Can't they crawl into my mouth and kill me from the inside?

Oh god

Anything can crawl into your mouth and kill you from the inside.

Even a person.

 

[Moodkip]

it's real

 

[Mr Swine]

Is that leg the snakes or something it ate???

 

[Se7enSword]

Meh it's no Worm Lizard
edit: Mexican Mole lizard

I shouldn't have entered this thread. >_<

 

[Zombine]

Now imagine flying spiders.

 

[Fenderputty]

Clearly a lizard. Not a transitional fossil. Checkmate creationists

 

[AnAnole]

What's with the freakout this snake would probably be slower then modern snakes.

Most people are awful

i.e. the "kill it with fire" crowd

 

[Jorok Goldblade]

You know it to be true.

The missing link between snakes and millenials.

 

[nailbombxx]

cuddlesnake

 

[foxtrot3d]

You know it to be true.

Desan, that you?

 

[boiled goose]

Meanwhile creationists go lalalalalala

 

[Recidivus Crimen]

Really fascinating. I'd imagine they use their legs to climb up stuff as well like maybe trees.

 

[Graphics Horse]

Is it time to bring out the flying snake yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vhgC_g1cmU

 

[mrklaw]

That's horrifying.

Why did I click on this thread.

edit: Caecilians (Gymnophiona)

Caecilians look like huge worms but are in fact amphibians. They are found in almost every rainforest but these extraordinary animals spend most of their time in underground lairs.
Here, the mother feeds her larvae by letting them lick a secretion at an opening on her body called a &#8220;cloaca&#8221;. And in a more gruesome twist, she lets her babies, which have sharp tiny teeth, tear off and eat her fatty, nutrient-rich skin. She re-grows her skin every three days to keep feeding them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCF4qmxdkkM


basically she secretes sticky liquid out of her arse (which looks like a penis) and her babies also eat her skin

 

[ArchedThunder]

That's so fucking cute... if they were alive today I'd have one as a pet.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I watched a BBC nature documentary tonight that had something similar to that. The mom was pretty damn big (for a worm) and she had loads of babies slithering all over her. And then they ate her skin. She grows new skin every three days and the babies eat it. Was really icky to watch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b063hkgm/animal-super-parents-1-going-it-alone

link but probably you have to be in the UK (and I don't know where in the program the worm bit was - probably after the halfway mark)


edit: Caecilians (Gymnophiona)

Caecilians look like huge worms but are in fact amphibians. They are found in almost every rainforest but these extraordinary animals spend most of their time in underground lairs.
Here, the mother feeds her larvae by letting them lick a secretion at an opening on her body called a &#8220;cloaca&#8221;. And in a more gruesome twist, she lets her babies, which have sharp tiny teeth, tear off and eat her fatty, nutrient-rich skin. She re-grows her skin every three days to keep feeding them.


basically she secretes sticky liquid out of her arse (which looks like a penis) and her babies also eat her skin

Not sure if this is the same footage but that was first filmed for Life in cold blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCF4qmxdkkM

I remember that footage but forgot they had no legs somehow.

 

[mrklaw]

Not sure if this is the same footage but that was first filmed for Life in cold blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCF4qmxdkkM

I remember that footage but forgot they had no legs somehow.

yeah it was - edited my post with the youtube link. seeing that in HD is pretty gross though. They have little dead eyes like sharks.