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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So, with more evolution, will it lose those legs or will it gain front legs?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Evolve into fins, then gills, then come back to the ocean

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably not the gills. Once you go lungs you never go back, looking at all those mammals in the ocean.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do we know none of the fish species never had lungs? Isn't it impossible to define a fish biologically without excluding a whole bunch of land living species?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

We probably can't. It's just lungs are more complex than gills and usually evolution goes towards to more complex systems. If you're talking about classification, I wouldn't say impossible. Though I'm not a taxonomist.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago

honestly, it's for it to decide (As a human I'd whisper stay the course, hands are overrated and gave me taxes)

[–] trucy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

yo that's a mf snake

[–] lath@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Ah, Australia! So, in which weird yet amazing ways will this one kill you?

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, legless lizards. Gotta be one of my favourite genre of scaly bois

[–] deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it has legs, but just one pair, which is hilarious

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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, i miased it from the meme somehow lol OK, only the hind legs makes it even funnier

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/03/lerista.html

The site where the screen seems to be captured has a higher res version of the image where the right hind leg is visible.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I can't tell which way evolution is going

[–] tentaclenumber3@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh my god, amazing! Skinks are good bois. Happy to have more of them. The name is pretty cool too. Tagalaka slider. Rolls off the tongue.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We have those in the south west of UK where I grew up. We call them slowworms.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol, we call them blind sneakers? in German

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

Skinks are cool but they don't beat the olm

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Wait til you hear about Glass Lizards (and other legless lizards.)

A new one is cool too though!