Sentences with phrase «snakes had legs»

In particular, I was fascinated with the concept that snakes had legs but supposedly lost them through evolution.

Oh, and the snake had legs.

Clearly an aetiological myth to explain why snakes have no legs.

Not exact matches

2) «Over the course of evolutionary history, snakes have lost legs, cavefish have lost vision, and parasitic bacterium have lost the ability to live independently in the wild, all in an effort to become better adapted to their environments.»

No, but we are all still waiting for the radiocarbon dating data to come back that proves the snakes in the Garden of Eden NEVER had legs, thus were never cursed by God.

Snake legs — several different animal types (including an amphibian) have come to rely on the «slithering» mode of locomotion.

It was like he was some kind of snake charmer or something I couldn't stop laughing at Fabregas chasing iwobi and didn't have the legs to do it hahaha and then left him on the ground with fantastic footwork.

«However, without the leg - up provided by those resistant nerves, snakes wouldn't have been able to withstand enough toxin to get this whole process started.»

He had shown in previous work that a certain gene turns off limb development in snakes — making snakes essentially limbless four - legged animals — and he wanted to compare that finding in other species.

In virtually every single respect [it] looks like a snake, except for one little detail — it has arms and legs.

How, scientists have wondered, did snakes lose their legs?

At the same time, it is unclear just how modern these fossils can be because they both have stubby legs — presumably a leftover feature from more ancient snakes.

The snake had wrapped itself around the upper body of one marmoset, while clinging to the other by its legs.

But this snake had four legs.

Now, with more ways to monitor gene activity during development — and fully sequenced genomes of various snakes and other reptiles for comparison — Cohn and graduate student Francisca Leal have tracked the genetic activity in embryonic pythons to see why their legs start, but never finish, developing.

He and his colleagues compared the genomes of those snakes with the genomes of snakes such as vipers and cobras, which evolved more recently and have no leg remnants.

They didn't start out that way: More than 100 million years ago, snakes had visible legs.

In snakes with no leg bones, the enhancers have even more deletions, they report, making it likely that the gene never turns on in the first place.

The studies may also help settle a longstanding controversy about fossil snakes, some of which have legs to varying degrees.

«How snakes lost their legs has long been a mystery to scientists, but it seems that this happened when their ancestors became adept at burrowing,» Dr. Hongyu Yi, leader of the study from the University's School of GeoSciences, explained in a news release.

I could hear them like voices in my own head — why has this boy stopped talking, queer as a winged snake is he, leant against the wall with such a look on his face, would be handsome if he weren't so sullen, what a chest he has, deep as a wrestler's, how does it spring from those twisted haunches to which are pawled legs like hanks of rope, oh god, his ribcage is heaving as if at any moment he may vomit, maybe he is ill, boy what is your problem, alas, my wordless enquiries cause his convulsions to grow worse, I think he may be going to have a fit, what will I do if he dies, oh dear, my further anxious attempts to communicate, with twisting «wherefore» hand motions and raising of eyebrows, seem to cause violent shudders, bugger's lips are writhing in some kind of agony, should a doctor be called, where can one find a doctor in this place, where the hell am I anyway, what the fuck am I doing here?

Being blind from birth, they have no idea what this strange creature is, but when one monk feels the elephant's leg, he concludes «an elephant is just like a tree,» and when another monk feels the trunk, he disagrees, saying «an elephant is just like a snake,» and so on.

This stunning 110 - acre parcel, featuring ocean views from Point Reyes to Pedro Point, has been improved with new trail alignments, a dramatic stairway to the bluffs, and three ponds dug as habitat for the snake's preferred prey, the threatened California red - legged frog.

Thanks to community volunteers the 32 - acre wetland park now has trails, red - legged frog ponds, and a revived habitat for the San Francisco garter snake, once North America's most endangered reptile.

I grew up catching snakes as a kid, so I wasn't really terrified of it, and I knew not to move or jump or do anything quickly, so I just asked the snake handler to get me my little Canon point and shoot camera instead of the big camera I was using for the book [00:36:00] and I just hooked up the strobe, which is this red wire that hooks up to the strobe and I was just taking about 20 or 30 photos of this once in a lifetime moment where I have a black mamba wrapped around my leg.

So if they don't include Banjo Kazooie because doing so supports a «rival» platform holder, they don't have a leg to stand on considering past guest characters (in particular Snake and Cloud) effectively advertise games they're featured in that can only be played on other consoles.