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He finds a 'dinosaur claw' in his garden and leaves the experts baffled

2023-04-03T22:54:59.376Z


A woman made a surprising find in her home. She went to a zoo, she consulted a vet and no one can believe it.


A woman was shocked by the

mysterious find

in her backyard: to her it was

a mutilated "dinosaur claw

," or something similar from an unknown animal that vets can't identify.

Laura Moorcroft,

 36, was responsible for the find. She said she thought it was "a dinosaur claw" when she and her husband discovered the remains at their home in Flintshire, Wales, UK.

A "dinosaur claw" or something else

"We had just come back from a walk and my husband noticed it on the grass," she recounts.


Laura Moorcroft said she instantly thought it was "a dinosaur claw".

"It looks prehistoric to us: a

scaly lizard-like claw

. We're big fans of

Jurassic Park

, so we instantly thought it was from a dinosaur," Moorcroft confessed, reflecting on

The Mirror.

Faced with doubts, Moorcroft decided to go in search of a more qualified opinion, so he approached the Chester Zoo (England) and a nearby veterinarian.

At first, both maintained that

it came from a bird

, but even they could not agree on the species.

The mystery surrounding the find continued.

"One said it was like a

pheasant and the other a turkey

, so we don't know anything yet," Laura continued in disbelief.

A "dinosaur claw" is found in his garden, leaving experts baffled.

But immediately a couple of doubts arose: "And if it came from poultry or some kind of game bird,

what happened to the rest of the animal?

And

how did the claw end up in that place?

" the woman wonders. .

Speculations about the mysterious claw in the garden

By sharing her photo online, Laura got the locals starting to spout theories. 

Some said it was from a bird, but others suspected a reptile such as

an alligator, crocodile or turtle.

More than one person noted the resemblance to a

velociraptor

, with some even joking that it was from the movie monster seen in 1984's Gremlins.

An artist's rendering of a Velociraptor mongoliensis.

Modern birds are descended from theropods, a group that includes raptors and the Tyrannosaurus rex, according to

Scientific American

.

Arkhat Abzhanov, a biologist at Harvard University

, told the magazine: "The earliest birds were almost identical to the late embryo of Velociraptors."

Unlike their movie counterpart, the real Velociraptors were also feathered and the same size as turkeys.

They measured the mysterious claw found in the garden of a house in the United Kingdom.

Antecedent 

The baffling find comes after

the remains of the world's largest flying reptile

from the Jurassic era were unearthed on the Isle of Skye.

They claim that a fossilized skeleton of the winged creature was in

"almost pristine condition"

, despite the fact that the pterodactyl dates back around 170 million years, the British newspaper notes.

It was found at Brother's Point, the same promontory on Skye's Trotternish peninsula where fossilized dinosaur tracks

were discovered some 170 million years ago.

The mysterious sea creature that washed up dead on a beach in the UK.

reddit screenshot

At the same time, disconcerting images of a mysterious

  dead sea creature washed up on a UK beach

surfaced last December .

The animal was nicknamed

the "baby Loch Ness Monster"

by some Reddit users, due to its resemblance to the creature from Scottish folklore.

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Source: clarin

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