Anomalocaris was a squidlike predator with grasping claws that lived more than 500 million years ago.
Like in an arcade game, the operator lowers a set of claws that carries the containers onto short stacks onshore.
Most passerines, however, have moderately curved sharp claws that are suited to grip a variety of rounded or rough surfaces.
On a female figure, spikes sticking out of the head harken back to the bear claws that adorned Demento's warm-up outfit.
Each foot has five digits ending in large nonretractile claws that are sometimes adapted for digging, as in the Asian sloth bear.
"As in any jungle, the animals will use all the means at their disposal, all their teeth and claws that are permitted by the ecosystem".
Each foot bore three toes which ended in large, fissured phalanges bearing claws that may have been used for digging up roots and bulbs.
The best jokes in this scattershot screwball satire of job insecurity, upward mobility, political correctness and yuppie marital tensions have claws that leave scratches.
In recent years, the famous lost cargo of silver began to beckon as technological strides resulted in new generations of sturdy robots, lights, cameras and claws that can withstand the crushing pressure of the deep.
And then there's the faithful pooch that in one scene yelps when (finally!) he encounters a genre-hopping extraterrestrial with razored lobster claws that looks like a cousin of the monsters from the "Alien" films.
Stylinodonts culminated in forms with extremely short and broad skulls; deep, massively built lower jaws; rootless teeth; and limbs tipped by very large, long claws that were used for either grasping or digging.
