Post by Pincho Paxton on Dec 14, 2023 15:16:12 GMT
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Why do some lizards and snakes have horns?
Pincho says...
Evolution depends on physics that happened naturally to early life forms. Nostrils for example were also feelers at one time, and feelers pointing outwards were like early legs, and arms, and so were eyes...
Evolution Does The Hokey Cokey
The reason for these mutations are to do with sea worm evolution, and their ability to regenerate body parts, which was originally quite unstable.
So survival of the fittest really means that physical changes where a worm regenerated incorrectly were stored, and some survived.
Some snakes with horns survived with the mutations originating from sea worms. It doesn't really have to mean very much at all.
Pincho Paxton
Why do some lizards and snakes have horns?
Banfi thinks there are plenty of opportunities to delve into why horns do or don’t appear in the animal kingdom. For instance, the viper Cerastes cerastes lays eggs that sometimes hatch a mix of horned and hornless offspring, and it’s not clear why. And some amphibians and invertebrates have hornlike structures, so researchers could test whether feeding strategies could be a factor there, too.
Pincho says...
Evolution depends on physics that happened naturally to early life forms. Nostrils for example were also feelers at one time, and feelers pointing outwards were like early legs, and arms, and so were eyes...
Evolution Does The Hokey Cokey
The reason for these mutations are to do with sea worm evolution, and their ability to regenerate body parts, which was originally quite unstable.
So survival of the fittest really means that physical changes where a worm regenerated incorrectly were stored, and some survived.
Some snakes with horns survived with the mutations originating from sea worms. It doesn't really have to mean very much at all.
Pincho Paxton