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Do snakes have limbs

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Actually the answer "no" to the question "Do some reptiles have wings?" is incorrect. In Fact, there is a Lizard(Reptile) that have half wings that helps it glides along trees from one point to another.

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Snakes do in fact have tails, their tail begins at their cloaca (butt) and continues to the end of their length. Also, in general, males do have longer and also more robust tails because their tail is where they keep their sexual organs.

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No, but certain species of frog, lizard and snake have been known to glide for distances of up to fifteen meters. Recent research indicates that avians and reptiles are more closely related than we may have origically speculated, so the concept of a flying reptile isn't so feather-brained.

note to the person who answered this: frogs are amphibians, not reptiles...but the rest is good =]

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Yes some of them, a few species of snakes in the rainforest can "fly". The snakes don't actually "fly", but they glide from tree to tree by flatting their bodies, sort of like a cobra's hood, except the snakes whole body is flat. They're a bit like flying squirrels.

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Summary of what is written below: No, snakes do not have wings as they are reptiles and it is not yet proven if or if not reptiles have wings. No, snakes do not have wings. Snakes are elongate legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Like lizards, from which they evolved, they have loosely articulated skulls, and most can dislocate their lower jaw in order to swallow prey much larger than their own head. In order to accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and they have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca.

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Snakes do have legs. They are inside of them. They are vestigial structures, evolutionary leftovers.

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wow i did not know that

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Yes,When they look at the sky dramatically they all of a sudden grow angels wings and fly to Mars,that is how scientists know that there is life on Mars.

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no. The only bones snakes have are a skull (with adjustable jaw), spinal cord and ribs

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no they dont they only slither

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no

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