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  2. Webbed foot - Wikipedia

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    The webbed foot is a specialized limb with interdigital membranes (webbings) that aids in aquatic locomotion, present in a variety of tetrapod vertebrates. This adaptation is primarily found in semiaquatic species, and has convergently evolved many times across vertebrate taxa.

  3. Webbed toes - Wikipedia

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    Webbed toes can be separated through surgery. Surgical separation of webbed toes is an example of body modification. As with any form of surgery, there are risks of complications. In contrast, when left untreated it is very uncommon for webbed toes to cause complications beyond cosmetic considerations.

  4. Bird feet and legs - Wikipedia

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    The feet in loons [2] and grebes [2] [7] are placed far at the rear of the body - a powerful accommodation to swimming underwater, [7] but a handicap for walking. The snowshoe-like foot of the willow ptarmigan is an adaptation for walking on snow. [1] Because avian forelimbs are wings, many forelimb functions are performed by the bill and ...

  5. Interdigital webbing - Wikipedia

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    An example of interdigital webbing on an Abah River flying frog.. In oryzomyines, a mainly South American rodent group, the marsh rice rat, Pseudoryzomys simplex, and Sigmodontomys alfari all have small webs, which do not extend to the end of the proximal phalanges, whereas Amphinectomys savamis, Lundomys molitor and the members of the genera Holochilus and Nectomys have more expansive webbing ...

  6. Muskrat - Wikipedia

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    They are covered with short, thick fur of medium to dark brown color. Their long tails, covered with scales rather than hair, are laterally compressed and generate a small amount of thrust, with their webbed hind feet being the main means of propulsion, [3] and the unique tail mainly important in directional stability. Muskrats spend most of ...

  7. Police find wet, nearly naked woman with webbed feet claiming ...

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    Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a mysterious woman found wandering by herself at 3 A.M. who claims to be a mermaid.

  8. True frog - Wikipedia

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    Typically, true frogs are smooth and moist-skinned, with large, powerful legs and extensively webbed feet. The true frogs vary greatly in size, ranging from small—such as the wood frog (Lithobates sylvatica)—to large. Many of the true frogs are aquatic or live close to water. Most species lay their eggs in the water and go through a tadpole ...

  9. Syndactyly - Wikipedia

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    Five types [4] of syndactyly have been identified in humans. The corresponding loci associated with these types and their common phenotypical expression are as follows: . type I: 2q34-q36; [5] webbing occurs between middle and ring fingers and/or second and third toes.