If you still have incubus about the fleet - footed Velociraptors from Jurassic Park , here is yet another reasonableness to dread them . fossilist now believe that the predatory dinosaur climbed trees , where they would wait to swoop on their target .
Phil Manning of the University of Manchester has been examining the biomechanics of raptors , with an special focus on the dinosaur ’ claws , which man antecedently feel were shrewd enough to deflate skin , but belike could not tear it open . Manning now believe that the claws were better suited to mount tree than ripping open prey , with the Velociraptor hold off for prey to appear below them and then leaping down , hooking its claws into a hapless animal and fork out a obliterate blow with its powerful tooth .
If Manning is correct , this may demand a revision ofRandall Munroe‘s famousVelociraptor trouble :
Velociraptor ’s ‘ killing ’ claws were for climbing[New Scientist ]
Raptor problem fromxkcd .
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