Dave Hone
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They do get a bit bigger than this.
But as I love showing, it's not a million miles off the size of my own.
I could do with a diet, but I don't weigh seven tons.
So yeah, it really is really pretty small.
Two claws, two fingers.
Yeah, so two fingers.
You'll see sometimes that they say there's a third.
This is a slight misnomer.
So you do see this extra little bone here.
This doesn't turn up in all of them, and it's an extra hand bone.
So it's these, the metacarpals, but it's not supporting an extra digit.
So mostly functionality-wise, it wasn't very functional.
They're not doing very much at all.
This is what's called the deltoid pectoral crest.
It's really important for basically big arm movements because it's deltoids and pectorals.
The radius and ulna are really quite thin, thinner than ours.
The fingers are pretty stocky.
The claws look big and curved,
And they are, but other tyrannosaurs, and indeed other carnivores generally, much more curved claws.
And then they have these little things.