Thursday, March 15, 2012

Snake theory has no leg to stand on

Biologists have assumed that snakes gained an advantage duringevolution by getting rid of their legs. Among biomechanicalresearchers who ponder such things, it was believed energyexpenditure during locomotion is less for limbless animals than fortheir limbed counterparts of equal size. Hence, it was argued,snakes evolved toward the …

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