Oksana Masters

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

American Athlete

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

American Scientist

Webbed refers to a physical trait that helps animals in water.

Animal Adaptation

While ducks are commonly known for it, other animals can also have webbed features.

Not Just Ducks

Humans may also have webbing, which is typically referenced in a medical or biological context.

In Human Context

Webbed can describe intricate patterns not limited to actual webs.

Complex Patterns

The term is often used in architecture or design to describe structures.

Architectural Feature

Using 'webbed' in descriptions creates a visual image of connections or links.

Visual Imagery

 but if you drill a little bit deeper, you've got to sort of wonder about what exactly was going on there. When you have two outliers in one organism, it's not a coincidence. When you have someone who is more competitive and more compassionate than anybody else in the race, again, it's not a coincidence. You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills;

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 skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily

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 and as you said there are individual parts of the skeleton that we can look at and compare with living animals so the feet of spinosaurus for example are very wide with flattened claws um they may have been webbed and there's some ongoing research we're doing on on

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 Some squid species have also developed unique adaptive behaviors. The deep-sea vampire squid, when startled, uses its webbed arms to make a cape it hides behind. The tiny bobtail, on the other hand, tosses sand over its body as it burrows away from prying eyes.

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 like a crocodile it's got a good tail flat and spreading toes might have been webbed for swimming we think that these are primary facie evidence they're there they're really great clues for an aquatic lifestyle one of the most

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 hippos in fact have many different features they lead a semi-aquatic lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with

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 big cats tigers have more muscle mass and are therefore heavier tigers have webbed toes often living near bodies of water tigers have adapted for a semi-aquatic lifestyle they appear to enjoy being in the water

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 like the duck-bill platypus's webbed feet, bill, and the venomous spur males have on their feet, they are, in fact, mammals. That's because they share the defining characteristics of mammalia

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 blue footed boobies are best known for their bright blue webbed feet prominently displayed in a courtship dance the male's blue feet are important in attracting females a new study shows

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 Bilbo's the perfect design for a life-saving dog webbed feet if I spread his toes out you can see where his webs