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[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Skinks are cool but they don't beat the olm

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] tentaclenumber3@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours 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 2 points 5 hours 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 2 points 2 hours 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 4 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 17 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

I can't tell which way evolution is going

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 6 points 16 hours 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 1 points 2 hours 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.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] trucy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

yo that's a mf snake

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

All lizards want to be a snake. But only a select few are chosen for greatness.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

convergent evolution is neat

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Considered snakes evolved from ancestor of lizards. And are related to lizards, squamates. And legless lizards evolved 25times