Digits 1 and 2 on the forefeet are opposable to digits 3-5, and the hindfoot has a well-developed hallux. |
They have an opposable hallux on their hind feet, and their pelage is soft, thick, and wooly. |
In other words, our ancestral rodents did not merely evolve gradually until they emerged as bipeds with opposable thumbs. |
A panda with a fully opposable thumb that is lacking in its nearest relatives is hard to explain via evolution. |
Their fore and hind feet have five toes, all with sharp claws except for the clawless, thumblike, opposable innermost toe on the hind feet. |
Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes on their hind feet. |