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Ask HN: Is there any tailless animal?
- maydemir 6y agoDo you think snake tailed?
- screpy 6y agoYes, 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.
- maydemir 6y agoSnakes look more like gut than tail :)
- screpy 6y agoHaha :) I don't agree with you, worms look more like gut.
- maydemir 6y agoI did a little research. I guess gorillas don't have a tail :) Spider, bee?
- bediger4000 6y agoGorilla (and other Great Apes, like humans) have internal tails. See "coccyx".
- Aeronwen 6y agoBasically, 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 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge#Skeleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge#Skeleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm#Skin_and_skeleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm#Skin_and_skeleton
- Someone 6y agoStarfish, guinea pigs, capybaras.