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Which of the two flippers more closely resembles a terrestrial limb?

Which of the two flippers more closely resembles a terrestrial limb?-example-1
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Both flippers have a bone structure simmiliar to the anterior and posterior limbs, with adaptation to water locomotion, but conserving the antecesor structure, posterior limbs are longer, and longer fingers in the anterior limbs, which are shorter.

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