What possible conditions could lead to lizards developing into snakes and losing their limbs?

The First Dragon2021-01-19T04:48:03Z

Lizards never turn into snakes.  I have seen a legless lizard, which has the physiology of a lizard but no legs; it burrows like a snake.
A snake has only one lung and is adapted very well to its legless condition.

CRR2021-01-18T07:41:20Z

A baby snake fossil  believed to be 98.8 Ma (million years) old was recently found.

The young snake’s bones were beautifully preserved in amber, a plastic-like material that was formerly tree resin. The fossil shows 97 vertebrae and ribs but the skull was not found. Some nearby shed snake skin fragments are assumed to be from the creature. However, there was no trace of hind legs or even a pelvis (hip), though these are known from certain ‘younger’ fossil snakes.

Applying standard uniformitarian/evolutionary reasoning to the fossil evidence as it stands, legs were lost, regained and lost again during evolution, but this violates an evolutionary precept called Dollo’s Law.

https://creation.com/baby-snake-fossil
https://creation.com/snake-evolution-story-stymied

daniel g2021-01-16T21:25:23Z

That is a nice hypothesis and fossil records show what would be snakes developed limbs for walking on land.

Richard C2021-01-16T11:46:56Z

'All the better for giving you the slip!' 😉

James2021-01-16T04:01:54Z

"Losing their limbs" has happened more than once to lizards, in clades that use their noses to burrow.
Look up "glass snakes" and "legless lizards."

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