Nightmare comes true: Snake with robotic legs (VIDEO)  

YouTuber corrects ‘God’s mistake’

Some genetic mutations 100 million years ago stripped snakes of their front legs and then their hind legs, forcing them to crawl on the ground in the form we know them today. However, snake lover and YouTuber, Allen Pan, decided to correct “ God’s mistake ” as he describes it and give them back their legs.

When all other animals have legs, humanity comes to spit in God’s face and make cyborg legs for that animal.

Pan visited a pet shop to carefully observe lizard movements and then build and test the prosthetic legs on a snake.

A 2014 study found that cells that predated to become the snake’s two hind legs evolved to provide a pair of hemipedes, only one of which is used in reproduction.

However, to date no example of a four-legged snake has been found on Earth. But a 95-million-year-old bipedal snake fossil has been discovered, and scientists suspect that it is the ancestor of today’s snakes, while it looked like a Komodo dragon.  

One theory that explains the evolutionary advantage of snakes being legless posits that their ancestors lived in underground burrows, where being legless allowed them to approach prey that lived in tighter quarters.

Pan’s prototype had two pressure sensors and robotic spider-like legs. But it was quite brutal for the snake since it restricted it a lot. The second design was based on lizard locomotion and involved a long tube that the snake could freely slide in and out of. But there was no way for the snake to control the movement, which Pan did wirelessly. During the test, the snake remained inside the structure, turning its head to explore, without appearing threatened or frightened to assume the familiar S posture.