Arts and Crafts

 Yesterday I was given some plaster models of dinosaur claws from the museum in Price, and I spent my afternoon today painting them. Here's how it went.

Before


After

This first model is of the hand claw of a relative of Therizinosaurus. A group of dinosaurs that were herbivorous, but also had unusually long claws, presumably for grabbing tree branches and fighting off predators.

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 The second model is of the "killer claw" of a Dromaeosaurus, the family of dinosaurs that included the infamous Velociraptor, as well as its relatives such as Deinonychus and Utahraptor.


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