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Utahraptor
at Fri Oct 2 21:51:28 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Utahraptor ]
On the point of limbs growing on things they shouldn't, aren't chickens sometimes born with long tails? The point is that the long tail is a relic of the tails that non-avian dinosaurs had and a mutation in the bird's DNA allowed those genes to be expressed instead of stifled like they usually would be in a normal chicken.
The genes for the tail haven't disappeared, they are just not expressed in today's birds.
Since snakes once had legs, couldn't this be the same type of thing? I don't really know that much about snake genetics and whatnot though, so I could be wrong. Either way, I can't exactly tell if that's what happened to that snake.
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