KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Snakes are reptiles with no legs. They move by using their muscles to push their scales against the ground or other objects. hibernation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Over millions of years they gradually lost legs, and they’ve even lost shoulders and hips. Evidence of older species with limbs can be found in the fossil record and in the boas (Boidae), a more primitive family that still has remnants of limbs.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Apart from snakes and some lizards, the only vertebrates without legs are amphibians including salamanders and caecilians.

Detailed explanation-4: -Python with vestigial appendage (hind limb bud). Snakes don’t have legs, right? Wrong–look closely! Pythons and boa constrictors have tiny hind leg bones buried in muscles toward their tail ends.

Detailed explanation-5: -So some snakes, as we say, boas and pythons and little worm snakes do have remnants of the hind limb. And those are the remnants of the fact that snakes came from lizards, and lizards have feet. So although there’s no leg on the snake, there are toes. SPEAKER 1: Snakes have toes.