Re: Utahraptor's sickle claw

[luisrey@ndirect.co.uk (luisrey)]

A note from Jim Kirkland regarding Utahraptor's claws.

>luisrey wrote:
>>
>please correct
>> me if I'm wrong... maybe Jim Kirkland can have a word here) I think there
>> was an almost consensus that the hand claws were flatter than the feet
>> 'killer claws'.

Jim:
>No they are not.

> And we have to remember that the 'killer claw' was the
>> roughly the same size as the hand's. And the hands had THREE of those EACH!

Jim:
>Thumb claw 80%, Middle claw 60%, and Little claw 40% the size of
>sickle-claw. All thin and blade like.
>>
>> Open to suggestions...
>Good!
>
>Jim Kirkland

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