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Warning: This story contains pictures some viewers may find disturbing A woman who lost all eight of her fingers to sepsis has received prosthetics based on the hands of the trainee tasked with ...

Although fishlike in many ways, it had robust bony legs, arms, and digits. Ichthyostega clearly spent some time out of water. From these finds, it now appears that the four legs common to land ...