Unlike their portrayal in Jurassic Park, curved-clawed dinos may have used their sharp appendages to pin and grasp, not slash.
Deinonychus and its dino relatives may not have used their wicked, curved claws to slash and disembowel their victims; instead, these fearsome hunters may have used these claws to pin and grasp their helpless prey.
"This claw is not built for slashing, to paraphrase a boots-walking song," Curtice told Live Science."It was doing something else." "If you're using something to cut, you usually use a straight blade, you don't use a big curved hook," Napoli told Live Science."And it doesn't have serrations on the bottom, it's rounded, so there's not even a cutting surface."
"When you walk in the cage and they close it behind you, it's probably how an MMA fighter feels," he said.
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