# Snake with foot found. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445 "2009-09-25T01:11:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/21 "2009-09-25T07:58:19Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Doesn’t the picture look more like a live snake, hissing at someone? Not only alive, but outside in bright sunshine . . . hardly in someone’s bedroom in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/22 "2009-09-25T11:33:06Z")
How cute would a hopping snake be? You could knit little booties for it, or find some cute little baby shoes, and have a cuddly little reptile hopping around your house like an overcaffienated Jack Russell terrier. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/23 "2009-09-25T11:46:06Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Based on the bulge in the body, it looks to me as if the snake had swallowed a live lizard, and the lizard managed to partially claw its way out of the snake’s body. While odd developmental things can happen, that leg seems way too well formed to be actually part of the snake. I think **Colibri** is correct. Too bad this didn’t happen after the snake swallowed a bird or a mammal. A wing or a hairy leg sticking out would be even more bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/24 "2009-09-25T11:49:03Z")
Movement with only one foot and scales sound :dubious: . Are there any one foot only creatures in nature ? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/25 "2009-09-25T11:57:27Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I thought for sure the picture would turn out to be [one of these](http://rangeboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/ajolote-unexplained-mysteries.jpg), which I find far creepier than snakes. There is something interesting to me about the idea of a legless lizard, which is what the amphisbaenians are considered. The fact that that one species is actually a two-legged legless lizard is beautiful to me. > [@indian](#): > > Are there any one foot only creatures in nature ? Sure. Snails, and other gastropods. Now, if you want to know about vertebrates with only one foot, I’d stumped. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/26 "2009-09-25T14:08:49Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Now, if you want to know about vertebrates with only one foot, I’d stumped. 😉 Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/27 "2009-09-25T18:26:55Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Am I the only one that thought she found a snake with a foot sticking out of its mouth? Perhaps. I immediately pictured a snake that had eaten a foot so that it was perfectly centered (and upright) between the head and tail. I agree that the photo doesn’t seem to relate to the story as written. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/28 "2009-09-25T18:29:47Z")
Looks like he ate a lizard. Been there, done that. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/29 "2009-09-25T18:39:27Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Am I the only one that thought she found a snake with a foot sticking out of its mouth? I initially read your question as meaning that _you_ thought _you_ found a snake with a foot sticking out of its mouth. :eek: > [@BigT](#): > > Incidentally, this is the one time a vestigial mutation would not even bother creationists, as many believe that, before the whole apple thing, the serpent had legs. I actually saw a comment to this effect on another site where the article has posted. If I’d been a subscriber I would have asked the theological implications of God’s curse wearing off or failing. > [@Crotalus](#): > > I think **Colibri** is correct. Too bad this didn’t happen after the snake swallowed a bird or a mammal. A wing or a hairy leg sticking out would be even more bizarre. If you Google you can probably find a picture of a bird of prey with a songbird foot sticking out of its body. I came across it recently, but don’t care to look for it again. (Bird claws creep me out a little even without the “Alien” factor.) > [@Never\_Say\_Dice](#): > > Looks like he ate a lizard. Been there, done that. Please exp.. oh, never mind. I don’t think I want to know the details. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/30 "2009-09-25T19:05:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Sixteen inches? What’s amazing is that the snake was only four inches long, and then it grew a foot! 😃 Next you’ll tell me a horse grew a hand. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/31 "2009-09-25T19:32:36Z")
Ooh! It’s a new Zen koan: _What is the sound of one foot skritching?_ If I squint at the photo, it’s not hard to imagine that claw looks like a teeny tiny human hand. So think about that: a snake crawling around, looking for things to throttle with its one tiny HUMAN hand. And then it goes into an old lady’s house … ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/32 "2009-09-25T21:54:04Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I think **Colibri** is correct. Too bad this didn’t happen after the snake swallowed a bird or a mammal. A \*\*wing \*\*or a hairy leg sticking out would be even more bizarre. Well, Quetzalcoatl’s due back any time now… ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/33 "2009-09-26T22:49:21Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I thought for sure the picture would turn out to be [one of these](http://rangeboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/ajolote-unexplained-mysteries.jpg), which I find far creepier than snakes. Funny, I look at that photo and I hear an uppercrust British accent trying to sell me insurance. “Don’t be fooled by that rapscallion lizard! Save money with us!” Back To The OP I agree that the pic seems to be of snake that swallowed a lizard that turned out to be too big, too mean, or with claws that were too sharp. I’ve seen photographs of constrictors that have burst open after eating alligators in the Florida swamps. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/34 "2009-09-27T03:01:02Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Am I the only one that thought she found a snake with a foot sticking out of its mouth? I was expecting just that. > [@DocCathode](#): > > I agree that the pic seems to be of snake that swallowed a lizard that turned out to be too big, too mean, or with claws that were too sharp. I’ve seen photographs of constrictors that have burst open after eating alligators in the Florida swamps. Notice the bump where the lizard would be/is. This seems the most logical explanation. That, or this is another sign of the end of days. Whichever. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/35 "2009-09-27T03:04:31Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > 😃 > > Next you’ll tell me a horse grew a hand. It’s entirely possible that I will steal that. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445/36 "2009-09-27T04:18:26Z")
This is soooo gross. UGH! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-with-foot-found/511445.md?page=1)