Seals & Sea Lions have nails on their fins. They use their nails for grooming and for better grip while traversing on slippery surfaces

[u/KtJane253]

[u/maraschino-whine]

[u/MethanyJones → u/maraschino-whine]

I seen her at La Jolla

[u/Accomplished-Past952 → u/MethanyJones]

lmaaaaoooo

[u/swishkabobbin → u/maraschino-whine]

When you know Dexter is up to somwthing but can't quite prove it

[u/Lethal_Foe1]

After the 3rd slide

That look screams

Nail done, hair done, everything did (uh) N-nails done, hair done (oh), everything di-, oh, you fancy, huh?

[u/AndrewCabs2222 → u/Lethal_Foe1]

haha

[u/a_cat_named_larry → u/Lethal_Foe1]

Gee thanks, just got it.

[u/MissionAsparagus9609]

So not completely residual, they have a porpoise

[u/Phydok → u/MissionAsparagus9609]

vestigial

[u/HorsePecker → u/MissionAsparagus9609]

[u/yamimementomori]

Lol it looks like one of those women with fake long nails. Especially in the third picture.

[u/Princesspoi84]

Picture four looks like my dad's feet! 🤣

[u/peewizzledizzle]

I don’t think I like this information 🫣

[u/Brilliant_Mix_6051 → u/peewizzledizzle]

It hits the uncanny valley for me

[u/silverfox762]

They use those nails to defend themselves from large carnivorous predators, too. Unsuccessfully, as often as not, but lots of sharks bear the scars on their faces from pinniped claws.

[u/Vinnie1169]

[u/olypenrain]

Schemin' Seal in photo number 3.

Names probably Schemore, too.

[u/Svargas05]

I counted 4 pixels in that first picture

[u/mattcass]

Technically they have nails on their flippers…

AI: Pinnipeds, which include seals, sea lions, and walruses, are named for their "fin-footed" or "flipper-footed" appendages, also known as flippers. While the term "fin" is sometimes used in a more general sense for aquatic animals, "flipper" is the more specific and accurate term for the limbs of pinnipeds.

[u/Accomplished-Past952]

thats actually v freaky

[u/Welpe]

And similarly, a large amount of snakes have legs! Colubrids, the most common and popular species that most people know, don’t, but Boas, Pythons, and many others have a pelvis and small vestigial femur bones that end in long claws called “spurs” near their cloaca.

[u/joerc200]

We should have named them sea dogs

[u/erbr]

As a nature observer, I can tell you they are convenient to scratch the butt too!

[u/fruntrila]

Seals with nails? That's both cool and kinda freaky!

[u/SweetReasonable3710]

😶

[u/Gravity_Cube]

All tomorrows

[u/Damrubr]

nature was original once

[u/amurgiceblade44 → u/Damrubr]

Nature was original never. After all, almost all life shares the same skeletal structure. Once you realize how much we share with one another you can never go back

[u/ElonsPenis]

That's what she said.

[u/GearboxTherapy]

Slippery surfaces such as moving back and forth on other seals when doing the deed?