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curved claw

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curved claw
see corkscrew claw.


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According to Peter Makovicky, a palaeontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, smaller ancestral dromeosaurs such as Microraptor may have been climbers, but their descendants adapted the claw for other purposes, such as latching onto prey, much as big cats with their sharp, curved claws do today.
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The digging is done with their powerful limbs, which terminate in thick, curved claws.
 
 
 
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