I guess you could say that this is a handy young man.  A 6-year-old boy from the city of Shenyang, in China’s Liaoning province, was born with an unusual variation of polydactyly.  This mutation usually results in a couple of extra fingers or toes, which get generally get removed at birth.  However, this child has an extreme cause of central polydactyly, in which case he gets multiple copies of his middle digits.  The end result is the boy has a staggering 31 fingers and toes!

If you want to count them, he’s got 16 fingers and 15 toes.  Three fingers on each hand are fused together, and one of the fingers is incomplete.   It’s the sort of extreme mutation found only in toads, normally.  You’d be surprised by what the human body can adapt to; I have no doubts that, aside from a serious bill for mittens and some stinky sneakers, the boy is otherwise very much a normal kid.

Tags: medical oddities, weird genetic conditions, polydactily, boy born with 31 fingers and toes, weird science, mutations, mutants, unusual child, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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