For the last 100 million years, snakes have been unable to walk.
Thanks to the quirk of genetics or punishing gods (take your pick), reptiles have been forced to roll around in the mud.
no more.
Snake-loving YouTube engineer Allen Pan decided it was time to do something.
In a video that has been viewed more than 2.5 million times, Pang said: “When other animals have deformed legs, humanity bands together to spit in God’s face and give that animal new cyborg legs.”
But nobody loves snakes enough to build robotic legs. no one except me. The snake lover: Allen Penn.
Next is an adventure that first takes Pan to a local pet store to see lizards and learn how to handle snakes.
Then build a tube-based body with four mechanical legs that the snake can board and let the limbs do the heavy lifting.
To test his wits, Pan went to a local snake farmer’s house and luckily found a reptile that would become the first snake with legs.
At the end of the video, one snake in particular goes for a walk and looks very happy.
To date, there is no evidence of the existence of four-legged snakes in the wild. Scientists were momentarily excited when a promising fossil was discovered in 2015, but it turned out to be a lizard.
Still, snakes are thought to have walked the earth once around 150 million years ago, and genetics decided not to worry about leg development.
A study published in 2016 found that some snakes, such as pythons, retain the characteristics of their legs as two small bumps on either side of the pelvis. Interestingly, the gene involved in limb development has been dubbed the Sonic Hedgehog. really.
In the case of the two legs, the 95-million-year-old fossils show snakes with a pair of powerful hind legs. An ancestor of modern snakes, it is believed to resemble the Komodo dragon.
How and why the snake lost its ability to walk remains a mystery. Perhaps the snake decided to spend more time in the burrow, where the raised legs could be a disadvantage.
Either way, if any snakes want to know what it’s like to walk on land, a dedicated Los Angeles YouTuber will be happy to help.
Source: Metro
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