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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.

Pythons descended from an animal with legs.
Pythons descended from an animal with 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.

Answer 1

Pythons descended from an animal with legs.

Explanation: Small leg bones in pythons are vestigial structures—remnants of ancestral features—indicating their ancestors had functional legs.