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

Mexican Burrowing Caecilian Newt (Dermophis mexicanus) Shutterstock/Reptile 4all Worm-like amphibians known as caecilians may have lost their legs thanks to the same genetic tweaks as snakes. Analysis of amphibian genomes suggests that caecilians and snakes, separated over hundreds of millions…








