Scientists have confirmed that Therizinosaurus, the scythe-clawed dinosaur from Jurassic World, couldn't have used its 'useless' gigantic claws to fight because they were too flimsy.
An"utterly bizarre" dinosaur with claws so gigantic that their function has long remained a mystery couldn't use them to fight or fend off attackers because they were too flimsy, a new study has found.
Therizinosaurs started off turkey-size and evolved to be 30 feet tall, as big as Tyrannosaurus rex. By the end of the Cretaceous, this"utterly bizarre" feathered dinosaur looked"kind of like a giraffe" with short legs and a"huge bottom," which it might have sat on while munching leaves, the researchers said.
They also studied alvarezsaurs, a group of dinosaurs closely related to therizinosaurs that, in contrast to the latter group, evolved to become miniature dinosaurs with rock-pick-like claws."The alvarezsaurs became the tiniest dinosaurs ever — smaller than a chicken," Qin said."Their claws were small but very strong and robust; they could bear very large stress, like digging in the ground.
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