92 million year old snake had legs - BBC

[Monger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7339508.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7339508.stm

Interesting stuff. Evolution is neat.

 

[Corny Noob]

I thought it had already been determined that they did, given that in some species skeleton structures there's still just these little bone things just floating around in the back.

 

[Jcapicy]

I think the big thing with this is that it only had 2, a very rare find of the bridge between lizards and snakes.

 

[TWGarland]

I think the thing with it is although some old world snakes that are around these days have vestigial limbs, the limbs found on this fossil are formed, ie. you can see the individual bones that mdae up the leg, rather than just were the legs used to be

 

[tstephe3]

well as it was my understanding, the reason pythons, and i think boas have spurs on the bottom of their tails is because it is the remaining parts of there pelvis's and legs.

 

[Taxidermy]

very interesting

 

[tricksterpup]

I think the big thing with this is that it only had 2, a very rare find of the bridge between lizards and snakes.

Yes, but sadly this could be an off shoot that did not make it down the evolutionary path. We just do not know exactly where the loss of limbs occurred or how it occurred. We can guess and theorize until we are blue in the face.

 

[Jcapicy]

Yes, but sadly this could be an off shoot that did not make it down the evolutionary path. We just do not know exactly where the loss of limbs occurred or how it occurred. We can guess and theorize until we are blue in the face.

you are absolutely correct. Just like many other links in a species past, there is far too much speculation to draw a substantially solid peace of information on how an animal evolved or into what if at all.