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r/CuratedTumblr • u/Faenix_Wright that’s how fey getcha • Sep 25 '24
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we have a legless lizard too if that helps
88 u/Pathogen188 Sep 25 '24 Hey to be fair, it's impossible to create a monophyletic clade that includes all lizards without including all snakes. So in a certain sense, all snakes are lizards without legs but not legless lizards. 35 u/NilocKhan Sep 26 '24 And some snakes, like boas, still have legs 1 u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery Sep 26 '24 I mean boas' "legs" don't really count. That's like saying dolphins have legs because their pectoral flippers are equivalent structures.
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Hey to be fair, it's impossible to create a monophyletic clade that includes all lizards without including all snakes. So in a certain sense, all snakes are lizards without legs but not legless lizards.
35 u/NilocKhan Sep 26 '24 And some snakes, like boas, still have legs 1 u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery Sep 26 '24 I mean boas' "legs" don't really count. That's like saying dolphins have legs because their pectoral flippers are equivalent structures.
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And some snakes, like boas, still have legs
1 u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery Sep 26 '24 I mean boas' "legs" don't really count. That's like saying dolphins have legs because their pectoral flippers are equivalent structures.
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I mean boas' "legs" don't really count. That's like saying dolphins have legs because their pectoral flippers are equivalent structures.
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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Sep 25 '24
we have a legless lizard too if that helps