There are a number of paleontologist that now classify this as a simple “aquatic dinosaur like .... ready for it....lizard”.
Not a snake.
Dinosaurs aren't lizards. Snakes are a variety of lizard, in the modern classification system, but a variety that lost its legs long before any other lizard class did.
PS You realize that some snakes, even today, have tiny useless leg bones, right? Pelvises, too. Pelvises are for attaching leg bones.
Right, like “they” .... the paleontologists say.... “aquatic lizard” .... smaller and a bit different, but much like a slim monitor lizard.
Nope, not an example of “evolutionary transition.”
BUT..... you can believe it if you choose to.
Every transition also represents a species unto itself. Any creature whose legs are becoming so small as to be almost or completely useless are in transition because legs and arms originally served an important function. They shrink when not used for survival, so environmental pressures no longer maintain their size and strength. The emu is a bird, for example, without wings of any description any longer. Only vestiges of wing "arms" remain, that hang limply and uselessly beneath their plumage.
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