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

A woman was shocked by the mysterious find in the garden of her house: for her it was “dinosaur claw” mutilatedor something similar from an unknown animal that vets can’t identify.

Laura Moorecroft, 36, who was responsible for the find, 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 returned from a walk and my husband noticed it in the grass,” she says.

“It seems prehistoric to us: a lizard-like scaly claw. We are big fans of Jurassic Parkso we immediately assumed it was from a dinosaur,” Moorcroft confessed, reflecting The mirror.

Faced with doubts, Moorcroft decided to seek a more qualified opinion, so he turned to Chester Zoo (England) and a nearby veterinarian.

Initially, both supported this 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 turkeyso we don’t know anything yet,” Laura continued incredulously.

But immediately a couple of doubts arose: “And if it comes from poultry or some species of game, what happened to the rest of the animal? AND how did the claw end up in that place?” the woman asks.

Speculations about the mysterious claw in the garden

By sharing her photo online, Laura got locals to start spewing theories.

Some said it came from a bird, but others suspected a type of reptile an alligator, a crocodile or a turtle.

More than one person has noticed the similarity to a velociraptorsand some even joked that it came from the movie monster seen in 1984’s Gremlins.

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

Arkhat Abzhanov, biologist at Harvard UniversityHe told the magazine, “The earliest birds were nearly identical to the late embryo of Velociraptors.”

Unlike their film counterparts, real Velociraptors were also feathered and about the same size as turkeys.

Antecedent

The shocking discovery comes later The remains of the world’s largest flying reptile will be unearthed on the Isle of Skye of the Jurassic era.

They claim that a fossilized skeleton of the winged creature was found in a “near mint condition”although the pterodactyl dates back to around 170 million years ago, notes the British newspaper.

It was found at Brother’s Point, the same headland on Skye’s Trotternish peninsula where they were discovered. Fossilized dinosaur footprints about 170 million years ago.

At the same time, puzzling images of a mysterious sea creature died on a UK beach.

The animal was nicknamed “Little Loch Ness Monster” by some Reddit users, due to its resemblance to the creature from Scottish folklore.