Why Did Raptors Have ‘Terrible Claws’?

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Raptors have Giant Claws on there feet and the conventional wisdom is that they were used for slashing at prey or other people. However, a lot of research has been done into their foot weapons that has not only proved this wrong but shown that their claws may have been used in different ways among different animals. In this video I will discuss several of the studies that have looked into the purpose of the raptor claw that have been done over the past 15 years.

Sources:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121476
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0028964
http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin13_1.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19711472
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339072541_Differential_locomotor_and_predatory_strategies_of_Gondwanan_and_derived_Laurasian_dromaeosaurids_Dinosauria_Theropoda_Paraves_Inferences_from_morphometric_and_comparative_anatomical_studies
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2011/12/14/deinonychus-and-velociraptor-used-their-killing-claws-to-pin-prey-like-eagles-and-hawks/

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