Interesting Articles: November 2007

  • Deinonychus' claws were hookers, not rippers (Science News).
    Many paleontologists have presumed that the claw enabled the lithe predators (raptors) to disembowel victims with a single slash, but two analyses suggest that the claws were instead used to grip and climb large prey.
    You mean some things I learned from Jurassic Park are wrong?
  • 1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    Dude, you're thinking of it wrong. The truth is too outlandish for a movie. these things were killing prey so big THEY HAD TO CLIMB IT. So cool.

    Of course I wonder why the claws couldn't primarily be used for climbing inanimate things....

    BB