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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 4 hours ago

fun fact its called thier cannon bone. early horses had 4-5 fingers.

[-] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

What if instead of five toes our feet would just have one massive toe with one big toe nail?

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 41 points 12 hours ago
[-] lena@gregtech.eu 17 points 11 hours ago
[-] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

For some reason this makes a lot of sense.

[-] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 10 points 12 hours ago

I wish our teeth were like that, just one big curved tooth on top and one on bottom so you don't get stuff stick between the cracks

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago

Something like this?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] fracture@beehaw.org 4 points 9 hours ago

kinda more like all the fingers merged into one innit?

posts picture of hand with all the fingers merging into one big finger

[-] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Actually, it really is just a single metacarpal bone. The others are the red square bones you see up top, they are vestigial at this point. Like how whales have legs, we just can't see them

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)
[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

There was an illustrator that did these a while back.

Annoyingly I can’t find it on what I think is their website since it’s in Japanese. If you do a search for Satoshi Kawasaki it should pop up though.

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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