page_title: Bambiraptor
section_title: Forelimbs
hierarchical_section_title: Bambiraptor / Description / Forelimbs
caption_attribution_description: In Oxford University Museum English: Photographer: en:User:Ballista Edited in Adobe PhotoShop by User:Firsfron
context_page_description: Bambiraptor is a Late Cretaceous, 72-million-year-old, bird-like dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur described by scientists at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the University of New Orleans.
  The holotype fossil is less than one meter long, although this specimen appears to be a juvenile, and it is possible that Bambiraptor is a juvenile Saurornitholestes. Because of its small size, it was named Bambiraptor feinbergi, after the popular Disney movie character and the surname of the wealthy family who bought and lent the specimen to the new Graves Museum of Natural History in Florida.
context_section_description: Research done by Phil Senter of the Lamar State College in Orange, Texas has indicated that Bambiraptor may have had mutually opposable first and third fingers and a forelimb maneuverability that would allow the hand to reach its mouth. This would have given the animal the ability to "hold" food in its front limbs and place it in its mouth, in a similar manner to some modern-day small mammals.
caption: Restored skeleton in Oxford University Museum
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