Snake Found with a Foot

While random mutation is possible, you have to look at the situation and ask if this is an abnormality, or if an external source caused it. Many fish in China have gone through mutations caused by chemical run off into the waters, but nature has done stranger things before so you can’t ignore that either.

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/07/23/646296/snake03x-600×400.jpg

But the leg has the same skin color and striping as the snake itself. The photo is too small and resolution too low for any conclusive chest-buster action.

Or maybe it’s planning to evolve a few more legs and go on a killing rampage.

its from a meal. I have a friend who is a biologist and a reptile expert and that’s what he believes. So, I’ll believe him over the chinese press.

If it was a former meal, why are there markings on it that look the same as the snake?

i need a more detailed pic to make a decision

If it was truley using the leg as propulsion I would be scared to see one with two or even four legs. Well I guess a snake with four legs would kinda be a lizard!!

Don’t you people read the Bible? *All* snakes used to have feet:

So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.”

Clearly the snake in the photo was born less evil than the average snake, and so it got a foot instead of having to crawl in the same way as other snakes.

Alas, this woman killed it, so evolution toward a race of kind, wholesome snakes was stopped when it had barely begun.

Not sure how you got that out of my comment, but hey, I’m willing to take credit for it.

@Ted

Hey, inspiration has to come from somewhere, right?