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Weird skin-eating amphibians have no legs due to snake-like mutation

Mexican burrowing caecilian (Dermophis mexicanus) Shutterstock/reptiles4all Worm-like amphibians often known as caecilians could have misplaced their legs due to the identical genetic tweaks that snakes have. An evaluation of the amphibians’ genomes means that caecilians and snakes – separated by tons of of thousands and thousands of years of evolution – converged on the identical mutations when ditching their limbs.…