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WTF !!! Snake with foot found in China



A woman in China discovered a snake clinging to the wall of her bedroom with one clawed foot. It turned out she'd discovered an incredibly rare mutation - it's actually more common for snakes to have two heads than feet. Unfortunately, Duan Qiongxiu of Suining, China, killed the snake before it could be captured and studied by scientists. She said "the monster" was crawling along her wall using its foot and she beat it to death.
According to the London Telegraph:

The snake – 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger – is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.
Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy."

Creatures can re-evolve old features. Maybe this snake is the first mutation in a series that will bring back snakes with legs? Perhaps as the snakes' environments disappear, it will be better for them to have legs with claws. All the better for climbing around in cities.

What is it with you and weird animals?

Your sig is disturbing enough

My snake's about a foot...

Karmacazee wrote:What is it with you and weird animals?

Your sig is disturbing enough

My snake's about a foot...

i like things slightly different from the norm thats all

truth is ur sig scares me id hate to see one of thouse owls in real life

creepy

Freaking awesome. I demand the return of dinosaurs!

woooot then i could ride one to work, sure as hell would beat my car.
"vrrrr against GRRRR" ^^

Not that surprised. Evolution largely works through suppressing genes, when this fails, a gene is expressed in the phenotype as shown here.

Vivace wrote:Freaking awesome. I demand the return of dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs never left, birds are 100%, true blue, dinosaurs, crocodiles being the birds' only living relatives. Snakes are not closely related to dinosaurs at all.

All crocodiles are Archosaurs
All dinosaurs are Archosaurs
All birds are dinosaurs and thus Archosaurs too.
Crocodiles aren't dinosaurs.

However, if you want to see clawed, tailed, toothed dinosaurs, just wait a couple of months. They've already retrieved the tail and teeth of some chickens and soon they'll be recreating 'non-bird dinosaurs' in the lab through turning on genes that have been suppressed. Turns out that birds have the same number of tail vertebrae as Archaeopteryx when their tale is restored. They won't have to get rid of feathers because plenty of dinosaurs (like Velociraptor and possibly, baby Tyrannosaurs were feathered anyway).

Link to article

Neurotik wrote:fucking hell!!
Wonder what caused this mutation. Unless there's a species gone unknown that has evolved to the benefit of one arm haha.

As in my previous post, I forgot the EXACT mechanism, but the genetic information for fully formed traits that our ancestors had may still be in our body and they may appear when we're still in the womb, only to be turned off later (we still have tails and gillslits when we're embryos).

Chickens can still look like fully formed (non-avian/non-bird) dinosaurs and yeah, snakes can still have legs. The genes are just put into hibernation mode during the embryonic stage. When this, through some freak occurrence, fails to happen, the genes are expressed in the animal later in life.

Snakes aint gonna evolve into having legs if chinese housewives keep beating them to death.

that velociraptor looks like a pokemon.

Neurotik wrote:fucking hell!!
Wonder what caused this mutation. Unless there's a species gone unknown that has evolved to the benefit of one arm haha.

yeah there is ....
a while ago a renownend flora expert drew this artful and anatomicly correct sketch...
www.burrillstrong.com/wordpress/photos/trogdor.png

..are you sure that isn't a snake with a herniated frog meal?

Dr Fezz wrote:

Neurotik wrote:fucking hell!!
Wonder what caused this mutation. Unless there's a species gone unknown that has evolved to the benefit of one arm haha.

yeah there is ....
a while ago a renownend flora expert drew this artful and anatomicly correct sketch...
www.burrillstrong.com/wordpress/photos/trogdor.png

You mean fauna expert?

there's plently of stories of mutated animals out of china. the problem is most of them don't make it past the kitchen.

anyone for siamese peacock?

DJelements wrote:

Dr Fezz wrote:

Neurotik wrote:fucking hell!!
Wonder what caused this mutation. Unless there's a species gone unknown that has evolved to the benefit of one arm haha.

yeah there is ....
a while ago a renownend flora expert drew this artful and anatomicly correct sketch...
www.burrillstrong.com/wordpress/photos/trogdor.png

You mean fauna expert?

dammnit! i was confused and @work. It being a 50/50 i took the chance...
2 bad i made a booboo.

but man, look at its majesty!

Karmacazee wrote:My snake's about a foot...

A lot of people seem to be missing this..