News Finding: Fragments of the 'missing' digits can be found in the form of ridges on the backside of the splints."
Paper Finding: There is a reduction in large nerve number from the proximal counterparts.
News Context: "While this explanation of the second and fourth digits is viable, it is incomplete and fails to account for the animal's first and fifth digits," the paleontologists said. Fragments of the 'missing' digits can be found in the form of ridges on the backside of the splints." According to the team, this demonstrates that the first and fifth digits were not simply lost to evolution, but attached to their neighboring second and fourth digits.
Paper Context: We find a single VAN triad ventral to the distal phalanx, and numerous minute arteries throughout the section. There is a reduction in large nerve number from the proximal counterparts. In this region, the nerves are numerous, but the size is notably reduced, possibly reflecting significant branching of the more proximal nerve segments (figure 10e).