Ancient serpent shows its leg (hindlimbed snake fossil)

BBC ^ | 04/10/08 | Jonathan Amos

[TigerLikesRooster]

Here is a link to the original paper:

The Cenomanian: stage of hindlimbed snakes

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Leroy S. Mort]

..an extremely precious discovery - a snake with two legs.

Why go to Lebanon when they can be found all over D.C.?

[Strategerist]

THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOS-oh wait, nevermind.

[traumer]

Ancient serpent shows its legs...

[Soliton]

This is clearly an effort by Satan (a serpent by the way) to confuse the mind of Darwinonazis. The Earth is 10,000 years old and these “fossils” are just rocks carved by Satan to look like animals so that the Church of Darwin has something to worship.

[mnehring]

Looks like you may have accidentally captured some of a supercollider article in that..

[allmendream]

SNAKES GOT LEGS!

[CarrotAndStick]

Lol!

[mnehring]

//sarc tag not needed?

[CarrotAndStick]

Did you use FrontPage to post this?

;^)

[Coyoteman]

Cool!

[Hoffer Rand]

Stonehenge walking...

[mnehring]

LoL

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070116175558AARlSys&show=7

(spelling errors are source authors.) My pastor said Satan made the dinasaur fossills to fool us, is that right?
if satan delibrately created the fossils, is he trying to trick us thinking earth is more than 6000 years old, right?

[Joe 6-pack]

"THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOS-oh wait, nevermind."

So tell me....how can we be certain from one of these fossils that these are vestigial limbs that have almost disappeared, and not budding limbs that are just starting to grow?

[DGHoodini]

How much longer can it be, till they find a snake not only with legs, but wings? >;)

[allmendream]

Not too surprising though, the use little nubs to hold a female during sex. A male snake has two members, one for either end the good parts end up on when he is wrapping around her.

I wonder if they will ever settle the ‘lost legs for subterranean’ hypothesis or the ‘lost legs for less water resistance’ hypothesis. If you have ever seen a sea snake swim the latter hypothesis seems strong. Being subterranean doesn't usually entail the same devotion to being ‘stream lined’.

[Beowulf9]

“Snakes got legs!”

Johnny Hart?

[allmendream]

I think the Johnny Hart quote was “clams got legs!”; but yes!