Paws has is polydactyl cat with eight extra toes; three on each front paw and one on each back paw Most kitties have 20 furry, little toes — affectionately called “toe beans” by many cat fanatics — ...

Lots of animals are evolutionary amputees. No, that doesn’t mean they got limbs cut off by a doctor — it’s that they slowly lost certain limbs over time because of evolutionary pressure. Whales’ ...

While it is largely believed that horses simply evolved with fewer digits, researchers pose a new theory that suggests remnants of all five toes are still present within the hooves of the horse.

A British explorer who lost his toes to frostbite has decided to donate the detached digits to a bar in the Yukon Territory — where they’ll be used to garnish the establishment’s signature (and ...

During evolutionary diversification of vertebrate limbs, the number of toes in even-toed ungulates such as cattle and pigs was reduced and transformed into paired hooves. Scientists have identified a ...

During evolutionary diversification of vertebrate limbs, the number of toes in even-toed ungulates such as cattle and pigs was reduced and transformed into paired hooves. Scientists at the University ...

Several years ago, I watched a documentary about the fossil of an early amphibian, once encased in a stone nodule. When it was discovered, in Victorian times, five toes were uncovered on each foot, ...