Can anyone identify the animal this came from?

[JoeMoma]

Don't know what it is, but it might be good to show an expert paleontologist. The rest of that critter may be fossilized at the location you found that.

 

[L.K.Eder]

i am not saying it's alien.






but it is alien.





also, useless without scale

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

No, i don't think i am...that thing you have is really curved. Like a eagle talon or something.

I'm not so sure.
Looking at an eagles claw it's much thinner.
The widest point on the one I found is just shy of 5/16 wide which appears much thicker than an eagle talon.

 

[Meister]

I'm starting to think you're right.

To me, it looks too curved.
If it's a fossil it could be from a dinosaur.
If it's not it looks like a raptor talon.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Don't know what it is, but it might be good to show an expert paleontologist. The rest of that critter may be fossilized at the location you found that.

I found it 35 years ago in 15. ft of water while drinking copious amounts of beer so I dont think I could find the spot again.
But yeah,the only way to know for sure is to take it to an expert.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

i am not saying it's alien.






but it is alien.





also, useless without scale

Like I said.
It's right at 1 and 5/16th of an inch from the point to the backside of the thickest point across the gap.

 

[Meister]

A dinosaur claw

 

[Uncensored2008]

I found this claw in my late teens or early 20's while cliff diving and swimming at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
It was about 15 ft down on a ledge in around 100 ft of water. The only reason I found it was because a bunch of mexicans had accidently dumped their ice chest full of bottled beer trying to climb down the cliff,they were obviously rookies,the proper way is to tie a rope to your ice chest and have a buddy or two up top lower it while one or two others guide it down.
Anywho..they were bummed out and left. We sat there awhile and decided to try and dive down and see if we could get lucky and find it.
After many tries I finally said fuck it and went as deep as I could go,it was pretty much pitch black at that depth and it was all by feel. And all of a sudden there was the clanging of bottle on bottle. I grabbed four of em and returned to the surface in triumph!!! We all dove down and ended up retrieving over a case of beer!! WooHoo!!
While feeling around on the bottom I felt a beer and just grabbed it and a hand full of gravel. I almost tossed the gravel but out of curiosity I looked at it. And there it was,an obvious claw of some kind.
Any Ideas on what it could have come from? I did a bunch of internet searches but nothing really matched it.

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Alpha Velociraptor.

 

[Unkotare]

Nancy's Pelosi's baby tooth.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Like I said.
It's right at 1 and 5/16th of an inch from the point to the backside of the thickest point across the gap.

include a scale in the pic, and send it to experts, not usmb idiots.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

To me, it looks too curved.
If it's a fossil it could be from a dinosaur.
If it's not it looks like a raptor talon.

Yeah you may be right.
It looks like the sloth bear claw the most.
Mine even has that flat you see on the side of it.
But after looking there have never been sloths in Texas.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

A dinosaur claw

Kinda yeah.
It almost has the curve and it appears to have the flat on the side.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Alpha Velociraptor.

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You know thats the closest I've seen so far.
It sure would be something if thats what it was.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

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include a scale in the pic, and send it to experts, not usmb idiots.

Why not stimulate the brains of the idiots?
Other than the slight smell of burning wood I see no harm in it.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Why not stimulate the brains of the idiots?
Other than the slight smell of burning wood I see no harm in it.

nothing wrong with that. but a) scale is imperative, and b) if you are really interested in an answer, you need to look elsewhere. but you got attention, and a csb, so. mission accomplished.

 

[hjmick]

Velociraptor...


What kind of beer?

 

[JGalt]

I found this claw in my late teens or early 20's while cliff diving and swimming at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
It was about 15 ft down on a ledge in around 100 ft of water. The only reason I found it was because a bunch of mexicans had accidently dumped their ice chest full of bottled beer trying to climb down the cliff,they were obviously rookies,the proper way is to tie a rope to your ice chest and have a buddy or two up top lower it while one or two others guide it down.
Anywho..they were bummed out and left. We sat there awhile and decided to try and dive down and see if we could get lucky and find it.
After many tries I finally said fuck it and went as deep as I could go,it was pretty much pitch black at that depth and it was all by feel. And all of a sudden there was the clanging of bottle on bottle. I grabbed four of em and returned to the surface in triumph!!! We all dove down and ended up retrieving over a case of beer!! WooHoo!!
While feeling around on the bottom I felt a beer and just grabbed it and a hand full of gravel. I almost tossed the gravel but out of curiosity I looked at it. And there it was,an obvious claw of some kind.
Any Ideas on what it could have come from? I did a bunch of internet searches but nothing really matched it.

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I think that come off a Hodag. No idea how it got from Rhinelander Wisconsin to Texas, it must have migrated.

What's the Hodag? - Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Or it could be a dickfer, I'm not sure.

 

[hjmick]

Why not stimulate the brains of the idiots?
Other than the slight smell of burning wood I see no harm in it.

This presumes the idiots have brains. Some nights you'd be hard pressed to convince me...

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

nothing wrong with that. but a) scale is imperative, and b) if you are really interested in an answer, you need to look elsewhere. but you got attention, and a csb, so. mission accomplished.

I told you the dimensions two times.

 

[L.K.Eder]

I told you the dimensions two times.

oh my god. were you interested in an answer instead of trying to get attention, you would take my advice. who the fuck shares a pic without scale. put a quarter next to it, or something, you lazy fuck.