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Do Snakes Have Legs?

Do Snakes Have Legs?

Primitive snakes - such as, pythons and boa constrictors - do have nub-like legs beneath their skins and tiny, half-inch claws that protrude out above the nubs but nestle close to their bellies near the anus. Actually, even the nubs are not legs but rather a remnant of upper-leg (thigh or femur) bones. The males still use the spurs - but only during courtship and fighting - not to walk. No other snakes have legs.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/apr...nderquest_x.htm

Legs Snakes Do

This is the evolution of the snake. It had legs but eventually evolved in an environment in which it didn't need legs. A couple religions including christianity have stories of snakes having legs. Its not at all unlikely that snakes had legs, even at a point in time that humanitys collective memories can remember it.

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Comments: In the remote part of Kenya Districts called Bomet, a three meters python was killed in 1994, it had things like chicken toes/fingers for leg which are boneless along the body. It shrunk inside when the snake was killed. They were elastic and when pulled out will shrink back, it was the size of an average man's small finger.

Legs Snakes Do

I saw a documentary, something like a year ago, about causing involution in some species by activating the recessive genes: these are genes that, even if still present inside the genetic chain, have been made dormant by millenia of selective evolution.
By trial and error over the years, a team of researchers managed to cause common chickens to develope sharp teeth and a pair of proto-arms at the edge of their wings. Not only. Activating one of these dormant genetic mechanisms, they obtained chicken that had scales instead of feathers. The scales were absolutely identical to those that still cover their claws nowadays.
This was considered the proof that some smaller species of dinosaurs evolved into birds rather than vanish like it is often said. Since snakes are closer relatives to the dinosaurs than chicken are, I believe that a similar evolutionary process could have transformed some of the primordial inhabitants of our planet into the modern reptiles. Signs of this slow adaptation to the natural environent could be still visible in the older species like pythons or boa.