Curious Kids: why do we have fingernails and toenails?

Nails help us scratch an itch, but also pick up tiny things. ShutterstockCurious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids. Why do we have fingernails and toenails? – Jake (age 9) and Ben (age 7), Melbourne. The reason we have fingernails and toenails is not to pick our noses or to scratch our siblings. The short answer is we have evolved to have nails because they help us pick things up (like food), pick things off (like bugs), and hold tightly onto things. Early humans who had these type of

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