Another snake found with feet and toes

[Aron-Ra]

But this one isn't a fossil. Its still alive!
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-9-20/46166.html

Sometimes, an old evolutionary trait sort of "pops up" again, like humans born with tails or chickens with teeth. That's the only possible explanation for this two-foot snake.

 

[AnEmpiricalAgnostic]

It’s still a snake kind! It’s just adapting not evolving! A snake never gave birth to a lizard kind! Umm… and… the lord works in mysterious ways!


Thanks for the post Aron. A pleasure as always.

 

[Chalnoth]

Apparently this snake decided to disobey God's curse

 

[JohnR7]

Apparently this snake decided to disobey God's curse

Why is that? It still slithers on it's belly

 

[combatant]

Did snakes never have feet in the front?

 

[TeddyKGB]

Did snakes never have feet in the front?

No, but a snake ancestor did.

 

[combatant]

No, but a snake ancestor did.

Prove it

 

[dawiyd]

Prove it

Najash Rionegrina

I would go into it futher but I doubt you would listen anyway.

I'm sure if you care that much you would go do your own research from what I have given you as a starter.

 

[Dragon02]

Prove it

Refer to the OP.

 

[random_guy]

But this one isn't a fossil. Its still alive!
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-9-20/46166.html

Sometimes, an old evolutionary trait sort of "pops up" again, like humans born with tails or chickens with teeth. That's the only possible explanation for this two-foot snake.

That's a cool story. Hopefully, scientists can start figuring how this happened, and what mutations in the DNA caused this. It would be due to the Hox genes, right?

 

[Chalnoth]

That's a cool story. Hopefully, scientists can start figuring how this happened, and what mutations in the DNA caused this. It would be due to the Hox genes, right?

The hox genes themselves, or something else that regulates the expression of said genes, I'm sure.

 

[JohnR7]

The hox genes themselves, or something else that regulates the expression of said genes, I'm sure.

I think they call that the distal-less gene. Because if you block it's expression you end up with something that has no limbs. Or a fly with a leg growing out of it's head. Also the distal gene in part controls things like the pattern on the wings of a butterfly.

 

[JohnR7]

Sometimes, an old evolutionary trait sort of "pops up" again,

Pops up again? It is a question of what is being expressed and what is not being expressed. It could be that something is actually blocking their expression.

Nothing has changed in 500,000 years, it has all remained pretty much the same. Esp when it comes to bilaterin evolution.

The study, based on fossils discovered in southern China, pushes the existence of bilaterians - animals that possess the same anatomical symmetry that defines most modern animals, including humans - back to about 600 million years ago, said David Bottjer, one of the study’s lead researchers and a professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California. http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10275.html

 

[Self Improvement]

This is obviously a conspiracy being carried out by the atheist Chinese.

 

[Aron-Ra]

This is obviously a conspiracy being carried out by the atheist Chinese.

And of course the inevitable response from the creationist front is "So what? That doesn't prove anything!"