Are glass snakes, which aren't really snakes and are limbless lizards, living ancestors of what we identify as snakes?
>>2127841
No. They are more closely related to skinks than snakes.
>>2127859
See the teeny tiny vesitigal feets there. Skinks of this and similar type move a lot like snakes most of the time. Some skink species have even smaller vestigial limbs to the point that they aren't used at all.
Limb loss has happened a few times in lizards. While it is basically the same way snakes evolved, it's an independent event and much more recent.
>>2127859
Lmfao look at those tiny legs
What a nerd amirite
>>2127867
Don't make fun, anon. ;-;
>>2127866
Who's that?
>>2127866
Going by the bible snakes lost their limbs as punishment for the Devil using snakes as his possess-e when he tricked Adam and Eve.
>>2128975
Oh yes the bible is a treasure trove of reliable information.
>>2127848
/thread
>>2127841
>limbless lizards
That's what a snake is, literally.
That's the caveman definition of a snake, but it's still true as far as definitions go.
>>2128987
>salamanders are lizards
>turtles are lizards
>spiders are insects
>dolphins are fish
>limbless lizards are snakes
>>2128987
That's like saying everything in the ocean is a fish because it's "fish shaped"
>>2128433
Amphisbaena alba, ugly rubber cock with a face
>>2129043
Yeah, that's retarded. "Fish" should only be used for gilled vertebrates like starfish, crayfish, cuttlefish and jellyfish.
>>2129048
I'd enjoy looking after one.
>>2128975
And they eat dirt, all very accurate
>>2128987
Except for the fact that it literally isn't the definition, good try though
>>2128975
>A snake appears to Eve
>Snake loses legs as punishment
So it lost its legs twice?
>>2127841
That's not a snake that's a hydra very dangerous species call animal security
>What is convergent evolution?
>>2128975
now one of them flys
