It's said that the Velociraptor is a bird-like dino with claws used for supposedly slashing up its prey to disembowel its victims. However, scientists have tested that theory by using robotics and have found that instead the Velociraptor use their claws to cling on to their prey and likely bite a victim to death rather than claw it to death. Dr Phil Manning and his team, from the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester tested a robotic arm fitted with a life-like dromaeosaur claw made of Kevlar and carbon-fibre-coated aluminium to thrust it into the flesh of anything from pig to crocodile carcasses. Instead of producing the expected slashing wounds, the robotic impacts created only small, rounded punctures, therefore dispelling the assumption that the claws were used for slashing.

Similar articles...

• Study: Velociraptor Dino Not So Vicious
• Raptor inflicted death by a thousand bites