[ExI] YouTuber Gives Snake Legs, Defies God

[John Grigg]

"Do snakes want their legs back? That was the question Allen Pan, a
YouTuber who specialises in making strange inventions, set out recently to
answer.

Snakes, the slithering danger noodles of the animal kingdom, once had legs
like their limbed relatives, lizards. It’s expected that snakes walked the
Earth about 150 million years ago
<https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/20/498575639/how-snakes-lost-their-legs>
instead
of slithering along it.

But legs were evolved out, despite some snakes still having remnants of them
<https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-snakes-have-legs/>. Actually, it’s
speculated that snakes have two penises to mimic their leg buds
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/05/scientists-figure-out-why-the-same-signal-grows-two-penises-in-snakes-and-only-one-in-humans/>,
so it’s an interesting bit of evolution, to say the least.

But do snakes *want *to walk on legs? Well, Pan set out to solve this
mystery."

YouTuber Gives Snake Legs, Defies God (gizmodo.com.au)
<https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/08/allen-pan-snake-legs/>
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