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    11 months ago

    … Cooper said, adding that “no cetaceans have mobile thumbs.” 

    Didn’t imagine them with thumbs in the first place. So, their fins are hands, with fingers, but the tissue connecting them remains, forming the fin. In humans the connecting tissue dies off.

    Patrick Duffy had fin hands in that 70’s Aquaman? series. Saw that as a kid and absolutely wanted that.