@Dreadmaster231  
And knowing is half the battle!

@Dreadmaster231  
It’s rather surprising, no?

I now know things about snakes.

@moonlightaveger  
I’d like to see way more myth related content though, there’s so much untapped potential. I’m trying to grow my skills too but it may take years before I upload it to the site

It’s this sort of thing that makes me love this fandom. And I say that literally.

@Ryodraco  
Right, hence my statement of “I’m more than aware it’s a fantasy creature in the first place and so anything goes.”

@Daneasaur  
Albeit I don’t think there is any reason to think it’d be impossible for a hypothetical lamia, ophiotaur, etc. to possess such muscles (or a facsimile of them) in their tail. Snakes also use a variety of different ways of moving, crawling using only movements of their belly muscles being only one way (its also the slowest, but useful for stalking).

@Ryodraco  
Right, though I’d like to point out that glass lizards and the like don’t have their tail as the mode of transport as it would lack the needed muscles to move the body in place of the lack of limbs.

@Ardashir  
It should be noted though that some snakes have proportionally longer tails than others (some arboreal species for instance).
 
Then there are the glass lizards, which look much like snakes at a glance and have tails that take up about two thirds of their body length.
 
And of course when it comes to fantasy chimeras, organs can be placed in odd places depending on which creature’s anatomy they want to follow in a particular spot, or even doubled up.

tbh I knew this, but I don’t make legless snake lamias anyway.

@Ardashir  
You’re quite welcome. It’s a bit unfortunate that the information is not very common. I’d say it’s likely due to the fact that a fair few people find snakes to be too creepy to learn much about them.
 
 
@JP  
Very likely.
 
 
@Background Pony #F721  
Yeah, I’ve seen it lots of times, in which case the character is a normal lizard that somehow is moving around just on their tail.
 
Amusingly, that means that if we added legs, the character would be shaped like Ballista:  

 
However, another thing folks don’t know is HOW snakes move; it’s not the side to side motion that moves them, it’s their stomach muscles moving their stomach scales. Look at this snake not using ANY side to side movement, and instead just using it’s muscles.
 

 
Which makes slithering on their “tail” even more bizarre.
 
But in truth, if we put front and back legs on a snake to make them look like a lizard, they would look like this:  

Thank you! This is very interesting and instructive! But I have sure that many artists will put her “orifices” a little below the waist, in an imaginary hip. (anyway, a “mobile cloaca” can have many uses in many future exotic arts)

I’m certain at least one artist here will find this useful. He will have many uses for this creature. You know who I am referring to.

I wonder if this picture will excite any comment on the site?
 
And I admit, I didn’t know a snake’s tail was that short. Thanks for the free education, Daneasaur.