Ask HN: Is there any tailless animal?

by screpy • 6 years ago

4 9 6 years ago

maydemir3• 6 years ago

Do you think snake tailed?

screpy2• 6 years ago

Yes, if a snake has a head, it also has a tail. I think every animal with a skeletal system has a tail or a coccyx.

maydemir3• 6 years ago

Snakes look more like gut than tail :)

maydemir3• 6 years ago

I did a little research. I guess gorillas don't have a tail :) Spider, bee?

Aeronwen• 6 years ago

Basically, everything after the cloaca is the tail.

If you look at a snake skeleton, you'll can clearly see the tail is the part at the end without ribs.

Snakes evolved from lizards, and pythons still show vestiges of a pelvis and rear legs.

jepler• 6 years ago

Someone• 6 years ago

Starfish, guinea pigs, capybaras.

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