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This is a link post Nature! Science! Something!
Caterpillar turns into a realistic looking snake during pupation - many gaps in knowing why this has happened!
 (I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Thu 21 May 2015, 9:09, Reply)
This is a normal post Gaps in knowing?
It happens because over the course of thousands of years minute and wholly random genetic alterations make a difference to the physical appearance of the insect at various stages of its life. By chance, it vaguely resembles a snake at one point; this may give a slight survival advantage, thereby increasing the chance that the characteristic will survive for another generation.

HTH.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 May 2015, 9:29, Reply)
This is a normal post I see you've been watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1dRuJSH5I

Edit: here's another caterpillar new to science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4pxFJv50A
 (I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 21 May 2015, 9:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Entomology: unexpectedly deadly.

(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 May 2015, 9:48, Reply)
This is a normal post
kekekekeke :D
 (I helped save b3ta! omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 21 May 2015, 15:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Nonsense
God willed it.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 21 May 2015, 9:52, Reply)
This is a normal post You have a point
after all God applied such Batesian mimicry when creating mankind in the image of his wrathful gaseous orifice
 (I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:00, Reply)
This is a normal post But that snake was not around in that area
Why they started to look like a specific snake without possible connections - the randomness of nature is more likely.

Don't think it was God messing with us, he would have made it more obvious...
 (I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Which is more or less what I said.
The fact that it looks like a specific snake is neither here nor there. All that matters is that it looks less attractive to a predator. If by chance it happens to look like something specific... well, so it goes.

I'm still not sure why you claimed there's a gap in our knowledge related to this specific example (except in the trivial sense).
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:22, Reply)
This is a normal post I was relating that to something in the article
The general theory of evolution I understand OK (as a non-science major.)
 (I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Fri 22 May 2015, 1:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Batesian Mimcry ftw

(I helped save b3ta! Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:11, Reply)
This is a normal post It looks more like a turtle belming

(I helped save b3ta! Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Cool
I've just sent the link over to Mark in the Butterfly house to see if he can add any amazing insights into this weird burst of evolution
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 21 May 2015, 10:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Ha, so all these years of macho pictures of big cats, and you've got a butterfly house...?
;)
 (I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Thu 21 May 2015, 17:37, Reply)