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Postby Tunizcha » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:21 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.
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Postby Macindia » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:53 pm

I read this earlier today, it freaked me out big time. So many weird things happen in China, like that baby born with a penis on its back.
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Postby Moreau Catholic High » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:57 pm

Holy cow.

I think one of it's atavistic genes got activated by a mutation. Interesting.
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Postby RRichland » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:01 pm

Maybe God decided he wasen't pissed at the serpents any longer.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:01 pm

Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.
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Postby Psybris » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:01 pm

thats so cool, but really disturbing.
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Postby New Kereptica » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:02 pm

Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:02 pm

"A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.

Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other. "

Thats awesome... I would have never thought that the two snakes would just kill each other like that.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:04 pm

New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.
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Postby Psybris » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:05 pm

Blouman Empire wrote:
New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.

why, would you have let it/forced it to breed to see what the result would be? that seems like the only good reason to let it live.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:06 pm

Psybris wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.

why, would you have let it/forced it to breed to see what the result would be? that seems like the only good reason to let it live.


Yes that is exactly right.
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Postby RRichland » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:08 pm

I think that PETA's charter mentions these snake in a footnote.
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Postby Reavani » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:09 pm

Praise Reavi! This foul abomination has been disposed of!
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Postby Post-Unity Terra » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:11 pm

Purge the mutant! The idea of a snake crawling up my wall like a reptilian Boris the spider scares the shit out of me.
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Postby Reavani » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:15 pm

Post-Unity Terra wrote:Purge the mutant! The idea of a snake crawling up my wall like a reptilian Boris the spider scares the shit out of me.

Kill, Maim, PURGE!
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Postby Antilon » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:17 pm

RRichland wrote:Maybe God decided he wasen't pissed at the serpents any longer.


Blasphemy! Or the snake would be on plane.
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Postby Psybris » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:19 pm

Blouman Empire wrote:
Psybris wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.

why, would you have let it/forced it to breed to see what the result would be? that seems like the only good reason to let it live.


Yes that is exactly right.

good idea, but if my lifes in danger im gonna Image
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Postby Port Arcana » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:17 pm

That's gotta be one of the coolest animals I have ever seen.
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Postby South Lorenya » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:20 pm

This is definitely interesting...

Too bad she overreacted; I'm curious what would happen if Footsnake mated with another snake....
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Postby Hobbes City and Lanos » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:21 pm

I thought Snakes on a Plane was bad enough...
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Postby Cameroi » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:26 pm

Psybris wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.

why, would you have let it/forced it to breed to see what the result would be? that seems like the only good reason to let it live.

i'd be curious. and i'm a little bit disturbed that i don't live in a world where more people don't seem to be as curious as i would. not that i'd put curiosity above avoidance of suffering if it were a matter of that. but i think if i were in a situation like that i'd try to find a way to not have to kill it. of course if i couldn't, well it wouldn't be THAT big of a deal of course. but still. i'd be, as i am, still curious as to what might/could have been.

i also realize of course that the vast majority of such mutations are unstable and unlikely to breed true. that evolution takes a long time because it really is so seldom that such a mutation is actually successful, not only in the sense of the individual(s) own survival but in being able to mate and pass the new characteristic on. and of course there has to be an environmental factor to favor the change and the passing on of it too.
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Postby Czardas » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:36 pm

It deserves its rightful death in trying to subvert God's final edict to the serpent back in the Garden of Eden. Good riddance.


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[serious mode]^This. We should look for more of them.[/serious mode]
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Postby New Kereptica » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:37 pm

Czardas wrote:
Port Arcana wrote:That's gotta be one of the coolest animals I have ever seen.

[serious mode]^This. We should look for more of them.[/serious mode]


Let the Great Footed-Snake Hunt begin!
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Postby Barzan » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:43 pm

Ya know, I'm tempted to believe that this is a load of bullshit, seeing as how it's coming from China. Then again, with all the toxic waste in their water and all the smog, and the detestable healthcare system, who knows.
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Postby Grave_n_idle » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:48 pm

Psybris wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
New Kereptica wrote:
Blouman Empire wrote:
Tunizcha wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

Evolution for the win. The snake could have easily killed her if she was asleep.


Shame the snake was killed.


It would have died when the inevitable dissection was done.


If they had decided to dissect it.

Regardless still a shame.

why, would you have let it/forced it to breed to see what the result would be? that seems like the only good reason to let it live.


Maybe it's not too late. I saw this program once about extracting DNA from blood stored in mosquitoes, and crossbreeding with frogs or something...
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