<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Snakes, the slithering danger noodles of the animal kingdom, once had legs like their limbed relatives, lizards. It’s expected that <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/20/498575639/how-snakes-lost-their-legs" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline;outline:0px">snakes walked the Earth about 150 million years ago</a> instead of slithering along it.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">But legs were evolved out, despite <a href="https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-snakes-have-legs/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline;outline:0px">some snakes still having remnants of them</a>. Actually, it’s speculated that <a href="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/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline;outline:0px">snakes have two penises to mimic their leg buds</a>, so it’s an interesting bit of evolution, to say the least.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">But do snakes <em style="box-sizing:border-box">want </em>to walk on legs? Well, Pan set out to solve this mystery."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/08/allen-pan-snake-legs/">YouTuber Gives Snake Legs, Defies God (gizmodo.com.au)</a><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;margin:15px 0px;line-height:29px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p></div>