What came first?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MustBeSatan

And just in case you were looking for a legitimate response to the question, I vote the egg.

My reasoning follows simple evolutionary theory: At some point, something that was not quite a snake hatched out a mutated offspring that was, officially, a snake. That little mutant baby did well, and before you know it he was fathering (or mothering, I'm not sexist with my theoretical mutant snake babies) all over the place.

---

this is my reasoning for it too :gj:
its just like creating morphs! a bumblebee was produced in an egg by a pastel and a spider. the bumblebee didnt come out of the female first, it was the egg that was gona host teh bee :gj:.

now the bumblebee can produce more bees =]. and travis looked down and smiled at his bees.. ya rite =(.. some day

tell you what i came first. i scared the crapp out of the lizzard so much that it ran and forgot its legs. haha so the snake

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MustBeSatan

And just in case you were looking for a legitimate response to the question, I vote the egg.

My reasoning follows simple evolutionary theory: At some point, something that was not quite a snake hatched out a mutated offspring that was, officially, a snake. That little mutant baby did well, and before you know it he was fathering (or mothering, I'm not sexist with my theoretical mutant snake babies) all over the place.

The first snake obviously survived better than that freaky snake with the one leg. Otherwise we'd all be breeding the fantastic Peg-Legged Pythons.

---

So what happened to the something that was not quite a snake(or for that matter the fossils of the not quite a snakes)?;)

The egg...because it got laid? :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by herpenthusiast

So what happened to the something that was not quite a snake(or for that matter the fossils of the not quite a snakes)?;)

---

We probably haven't found them yet. Just because they haven't been unearthed yet doesn't mean they don't exist. Here's a link to a primitive snake with well defined hip bones..

Here

Some snakes still have remains of a pelvis/legs in the form of vestigial bones.. This is also true for whales (vestigial leg bones)

There are MANY transitional fossils out there, you just have to do some research, open your mind, and look ;)


Edit: I am also on the egg boat.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by herpenthusiast

So what happened to the something that was not quite a snake(or for that matter the fossils of the not quite a snakes)?;)

---

I ate it.