Snake with Arms

[thehawk]

What kind of devil creature is this!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/863766/snake-born...

[T89 Callan]

Wierd.

Although when I read the title of the thread I just thought "that would be a lizard then".......

[joewilliams]

I thought it was another thread about women...

[JMGS4]

I thought it was another thread about Horrid Horemoan

[Spiritual_Beggar]

That truly is....weird. Could be a new Humansnake superspecies being developed by the Chinese.

Of course, it's probably just a mutation caused by excess radiation levels or some toxic waste.

[FourWheelDrift]

JMGS4 said:

I thought it was another thread about Horrid Horemoan

Me too.

[FourWheelDrift]

It does look quite fat where the arm is.



It's probably it's last meal trying to escape.

[Oakey]

FourWheelDrift said:

It does look quite fat where the arm is.



It's probably it's last meal trying to escape.

Uh huh, what's it eaten, a foetus?

[FourWheelDrift]

A little lizard like a Gecko, their usual food source.

[ShadownINja]

That's what I thought. Maybe the grasping was an involuntary reaction from the muscles that the woman thought was conscious use of the limb. Scientists will cut it open and find out anyway.

[turbobloke]

Yes the muscular body contractions could account for the apparent movement of the limb, but the timescale of feeding and digestion and nature of the limb and its attachment area seem to suggest it's a part of the snake. If it was previously part of something the snake had eaten that had pushed through the snake's skin trying to escape, would the 'hand' not have atrophied by this stage? If the raised area is scar tissue, it would take time to form. Or - and it would be equally weird if this had happened - the snake's body incorporated the protruding limb in the manner of a transplant. Any way you look at this it's very odd for sure.

[S1MMA]

reincarnation of Jeremy Beadle?

[Spiritual_Beggar]

That's it's own arm...definately not a meal it's eaten. Look at the growth of cells the arm is attached to.

Like I said.......Human/Snake superspecies

[rhinochopig]

Vestigial limbs are quite common. Snakes evolved from lizards so it will be a genetic throwback. Bit like Gordon Brown really.

[turbobloke]

rhinochopig said:

Vestigial limbs are quite common. Snakes evolved from lizards so it will be a genetic throwback. Bit like Gordon Brown really.

We'd need to see the snake's jaws in action to confirm.

[ShadownINja]

turbobloke said:

Yes the muscular body contractions could account for the apparent movement of the limb, but the timescale of feeding and digestion and nature of the limb and its attachment area seem to suggest it's a part of the snake. If it was previously part of something the snake had eaten that had pushed through the snake's skin trying to escape, would the 'hand' not have atrophied by this stage? If the raised area is scar tissue, it would take time to form. Or - and it would be equally weird if this had happened - the snake's body incorporated the protruding limb in the manner of a transplant. Any way you look at this it's very odd for sure.

The assumption is that the old woman wasn't confused and stting herself...

[rhinochopig]

turbobloke said:

rhinochopig said:

Vestigial limbs are quite common. Snakes evolved from lizards so it will be a genetic throwback. Bit like Gordon Brown really.

We'd need to see the snake's jaws in action to confirm.

Just google labour party political broadcast.

[fido]

ShadownINja said:

The assumption is that the old woman wasn't confused and stting herself...

It says in the article, that she beat it to death with a shoe and preserved it in alcohol. Like any gran would do.

[turbobloke]

fido said:

ShadownINja said:

The assumption is that the old woman wasn't confused and stting herself...

It says in the article, that she beat it to death with a shoe and preserved it in alcohol. Like any gran would do.

Ah but this was a Chinese gran. She knows somebody in the west owes her a Veyron.

[sidicks]

It's all to do with Global Warming so we should reduce emissions now etc etc....

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