>>42589079If you've seen paws like that, there's clearly some of that whole retractable/extendable thing going on.
>>42590712Both the mythical basis for the beasts impled in
>>42590712 and the deliberate ambiguity over what mammals they were strictly "meant" to be as in
>>42586347, can be true. In fact I find the most likely truth to be that both of these apply at the same time. These concepts aren't mutually exclusive. They can be based on a solid myth concept as well as being of ambiguous real-world origin.