Dr. Beg said the cat was underweight and dehydrated, had "back claws and nail beds worn down, probably from all that walking on pavement," but was "bright and alert" and had no parasites, heartworm or viruses.
Scan the Hollywood Reporter's dedicated pilot section, or Variety's Development Scorecard, and every pitch looks like a potential smash ("Rashida Jones nail salon dramedy Claws moves to TNT with pilot pickup").
Can you get it done with a traditional claw hammer and nails?
The answer is unclear, but researchers have discovered a clue: an early primate that had a toe bone with features of both a grooming claw and a nail.
"What it really looks like is an intermediate morphology between grooming claw and a nail-like structure," said an author of the study, Jonathan I. Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
In many vertebrates local thickenings of the keratinized layer appear in the form of claws, hooves, nails, and horns.
Examples of keratinized derivatives of the integument other than hair are horns, hooves, nails, claws, and baleen.
α-keratins (alpha-helix) are usually found in the hair, wool, horns, nails, claws, and hooves of mammals, whereas the harder β-keratin (beta-sheets) is found in bird feathers, beaks, and claws.
Ranging in size from 30 g (1.1 oz) to 9 kg (20 lb), lemurs share many common, basal primate traits, such as divergent digits on their hands and feet and nails instead of claws (in most species).
