kraken wooden box with a purple claw

>This article relates to the claw in anatomy. For the 1927 Hollywood motion picture directed by Sidney Olcott, see Claw. A claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods, of the tarsus. The claws of arthropods are sometimes called pincers.In tetrapods, claws are made of keratin, and consist of two layers. The unguis is the harder external layer which consists of keratin fibers perpendicular to the direction of growth arranged in layers at an oblique angle; and the subunguis is the softer, flaky underside layer whose grain is parallel to the direction of growth. The claw grows outward from the nail matrix at the base of the unguis, and the subunguis grows thicker while travelling across the nail bed. The unguis grows outward faster than the subunguis to produce a curve, and the thinner sides of the claw wear away faster than their thicker middle, producing a more or less sharp point. Tetrapods use their claws in many ways, commonly to grasp or kill prey, to dig, and to climb and hang. See more at Wikipedia.org...

was created by Zhuge Liang while he served Shu-Han. It was a mechanical, walking replica of an oxen whose main purpose was to carry supplies such as grain to an army that was running low on supplies.No one has been able to recreate it accurately because it is unknown precisely what mechanism was used by Zhuge Liang in order to allow it to walk. What is known about it however, is that it could be found at the neck of the wooden ox. Sima Yi from Wei recreated many of these wooden oxen to carry grain, but was tricked by Zhuge Liang because the oxen could be rendered immobile by twisting its tongue. See more at Wikipedia.org...