Pythons have small leg bones buried in their tail muscles. What can scientists conclude from this observation?

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Future generations of pythons will have legs.
Future generations of pythons will have legs.

The leg bones help pythons move.
The leg bones help pythons move.

The leg bones will not be passed down to future generations.
The leg bones will not be passed down to future generations.

Pythons descended from an animal with legs.

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From the observation that pythons have small leg bones buried in their tail muscles, scientists can conclude the following:

Pythons descended from an animal with legs.

This suggests that pythons are evolutionarily related to ancestors that possessed legs, indicating their evolutionary history.