I'm not sure what to do with this thing. The picture tells me to treat it like a snake but people say it moves like a lizard.

I think I might also be grossed out by things that look indeterminate.

I guess I have to be a little less subtle. I wasn't seriously suggesting that this was proof of Intelligent Design. However, proponents of ID would jump at this "proof" in much the same way that dude jumped at the banana being nature's perfect fruit. And they would rightly respond to the "I'm sure if you looked at the fossil record" in much the same way. You can't base all of your scientific proof on a preconceived notion - that would make the "Garden of Eden snake" theory just as plausible as the "I'm sure if..." theory.

I better just stick with fart jokes.

You indicate “I’m sure if we traced the fossil record” without any knowledge if such a fossil record exists. You are making a non-scientific statement based entirely on presumption.

A hell of a lot more reasonable than this!:

"If this were a descendant of the Eden “snake”, it would show stubs where the legs should be. That way, it would always be reminded of its ancestor’s original sin."

lmao how old are you...why do you still believe in fairy tales? Talk about presumption

Wales, Great Britain. Wild, in the tall grass near the B&B I was at. It was a slow worm, not one of these, so I'm not sure how many of the traits carry over. The only thing I know is the same is the eyelids. But as a slow worm is a legless lizard, and this is a legless lizard, and it's a fairly specific taxonomic group, I'd venture there's a lot of similarities between the two.

I beg to differ with your interpretation about it "proving evolution". If this were a descendant of the Eden "snake", it would show stubs where the legs should be. That way, it would always be reminded of its ancestor's original sin. You indicate "I'm sure if we traced the fossil record" without any knowledge if such a fossil record exists. You are making a non-scientific statement based entirely on presumption.
If you really wish to refute my tongue-in-cheek statement, please provide factual data and not presumptions.

Meghan. Where were you that you got to hold one of these critters?

Ashes: I did the same thing as you did. Legless lizard?? What the heck?? Yay for quick wiki searches!

Tempscire. I apologize for mistaking you for a pretend-know-it-all. You are not pretend.

You are funny!

To those who think it's the same as a snake: you'll never see one up close, so you can afford your ignorance. Be my guest. It's not a position that can be defended, though, beyond the "I have no idea what I'm talking about, I don't care who knows it, and I think it's stupid you know more about it than I do" defense.

But again, be my guest.

If you want to say that biologically this should be classified as a lizard, that's totally believable. If you want to say that it doesn't look exactly like a snake, you're kidding yourself.

SMH at not getting the concept of a legless lizard...wow...There is a lot more to being a snake than just a reptile with no legs. idiots.

lol, this comment was spot on:

"I wonder if this many people would be shouting “IT’S A FISH” if a new whale was found.

“BUT THEY’RE VISUALLY TEH SAEM!!!1!!111 LOL”

Not necessarily a fish, as I suspect that cetaceans have eyelids, and if you hold them right you might detect their vestigial limbs.

"BUT THEY'RE VISUALLY TEH SAEM!!!1!!111 LOL"

""the ‘legs vs no legs’ should really be the deciding factor for the **“lizard or snake”** question.""

..not 'snake or anything else' question..

...I have nothing new to contribute, but as a science major in college at the moment, I concur with the above pro-science statements. And even if people did wikipedia it (or, heaven forbid, a real encyclopedia, since people never used those in the pre-internet days), that's still better than just looking at it and saying "looks like a snake, so it must be, and that's that!".

If you ever happen to see a legless lizard in the wild, you will be able to tell that it is not a snake purely based on its movement:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=legless%20lizard&um=1&ie=U TF-8&sa=N&tab=wv

This just proves the biblical story about how the snake lost his limbs in the Garden of Eden. This is obviously a descendant of that type of snake.

You just can't defy the proofs of Creationism.

Matt!

What do you call a legless lizard that is hanging on your wall?

Art!

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/e.g., me (biology minor)
//not that you have to believe that either. Anyway, even for those who looked it up, 'tis better to enlighten oneself than to wallow in self-righteous ignorance.

NOT a snake with ears and eyelids.