Similar dinosaurs had been named before–Velociraptor and Dromaeosaurus were ... and its similarly-equipped relatives use that awful toe claw? The appendage looks fearsome, but paleontologists ...

Now the injured claw of Talos sheds even more light on ... the researchers explained. An injury to the foot of a raptor dinosaur, for example, can yield new details about the potential function ...

there was a specialized toe with a huge, hooked claw. Both digits could be pulled backwards to an almost freakish degree. While walking around, Velociraptor and company held them high up off the ...

These large, flightless birds have powerful, muscular legs and tough, prehistoric-looking feet with claws that can deliver a ...

Scientists say their observations of claw use in the red-legged seriemas are consistent with what they have called the Raptor Prey Restraint (RPR) hypothesis. Due to the high degree of similarity ...

The new raptor track study was published in ... "Holding the big toe up," Persons said, “kept that toe’s enlarged and recurved claw from getting dulled as the animal walked.

Still, Velociraptors are often likened to birds of prey such as eagles and hawks because of the long claw protruding from the second toe of each ... prey as hawks do. Velociraptor also probably ...

This prevented the toe’s oversize, recurved claw from dragging on the ground and becoming dull. Several of Longxiang’s two-toed tracks appear to have been left by a small, velociraptor-size ...

A deadly, heavier relative of Velociraptor, which had twice as many giant sickle ... For instance, in addition to a large claw on its second toe, which was typical of this group of dinosaurs, Balaur ...

The research, published earlier this month in the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, observed the modern-day red-legged seriema, a South American predatory bird which has a sharp, ...