Fall colors have been really beautiful this year and I took this picture of a Japanese Maple.  It has been altered some by processing in Goggle Photos.

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<em>Japanese Maple</em></p>
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## Tyrannosaurus Rex Claws
I ran across this tree branch on the path and it somehow reminded me of a T. Rex claw or a bird foot or something.

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<em>Tree claw</em></p>
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The stubby claws and arms of T. Rex have been in the news a lot recently and the latest theories are that the arms rotated on a shoulder joint much like ours.  The short length and sharp claws could rip some deep wounds into other dinosaurs.

My theory is that these claws might have been used to just wound other dinosaurs and cause the weaker looking ones to die from septic shock or a major infection.  That way the T. Rex could come back after scratching its victims and eat a meal without having to fight something to the death.

Lots of vultures do this nowadays.  They often have very nasty bacteria under their claws because of their habits of feating on and picking apart carrion in various levels of decomposition.  Sometimes they will swoop down and rake a younger or sickly looking animal in hope of setting in a major infection in them.  Then they fly away so they don’t get injured by the animal and circle around waiting for it to die.

Possibly T. Rex used his arms like this.  If he or she pulled apart dead things when eating, I would think that there would be a lot of icky stuff under their nails.  So there you go – you can say you heard it first here on Steemit, LOL.  


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Thanks for reading!  I always value your support and comments.  The pictures are taken by me with my Galaxy S7.  Tree Tuesday was started by @old-guy-photos