Product Description
This Velociraptor, 20" figure includes hand painted features to give it realistic details that are true to natural anatomy. This figure is considered a museum quality replica. Highest Quality Natural Rubber.
Since the discovery of the first Velociraptor fossil on 11 August 1923 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, we've learnt a lot about this turkey-sized predator. Velociraptor claws were not disembowelling tools. The first Velociraptor fossil found by scientists was an impressive claw, unearthed alongside a complete but crushed skull on an American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) expedition to Mongolia. The first Velociraptor fossils - a skull and the fearsome curved claw. These drawings were published by Henry Fairfield Osborn in his 1924 description of the new dinosaur. Image courtesy of the AMNH digital library. We now know it belonged to the second toe of Velociraptor's foot. It was a predator's perfect weapon and could grow to more than 6.5 centimeters around its outer edge. 'Paleontologists built a mechanical model of the claw for BBC documentary The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs and they couldn't get it to disembowel things. Instead, research suggests that the razor-sharp claw was used for stabbing, not slashing, and it was probably used as a hook to prevent prey from escaping. If you look at the claw it looks just like the talon of an eagle, which is used to grip prey and pin it down. Velociraptor probably used its sickle-shaped talon in the same way to injure, subdue and grip its prey, before dispatching it with its jaws. Could the claw have any other purpose? Jurassic Park - which brought Velociraptor into the limelight - included an unsettling scene where the dinosaur tapped its claw on the ground to help it locate prey - in this case, children. But was there any scientific basis for this? 'Whenever we find tracks from Velociraptor and its dromaeosaur relatives, there are no little marks made by the sickle-shaped claw. This tells us the dinosaur kept it elevated off the ground, presumably to keep it sharp. If we were to encounter Velociraptor today, chances are we'd find it disturbing enough, regardless of its size.
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