A group of zoologists have have spotted a new species of limbless lizard in Orissa. The zoologists claim that such a lizard is not found anywhere else in the world. Although both lizards and snakes are reptiles and somehow snakes got rid of their limbs and learned to maneuver without them, these limbless lizards are not snake although they look like snakes and prefer cool places with soft soil.
I wonder when they stopped using their limbs despite living on rocks. It must have taken them hundreds of thousands of years of disusage to evolve limbless. With technology helping us do all the things, may be in a few thousand years we too will lose our arms and legs and will just exist as a thinking mass. And if we don’t destroy the earth and eliminate our race, some day may be we’ll just exist as an intelligence, without even requiring a body. Now that will true existentialism.
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