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Judging from its unique adaptations, this was a particularly gracile and innovative predator that possessed clawed digits primed for pouncing onto the backs of larger animals.

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Bamforth also noted that the hand was "relatively slender and gracile" and may have mimicked the arm and hand of a small adult or adolescent.

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This "big toe" is not only more gracile in chimpanzees, but it curves toward the other toes enabling a greater flexing motion.

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One gracile young warrior, who some researchers had previously speculated might be female, turned out to be male.

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Brazil’s top star, Neymar, is a gracile wisp of murder, and France’s squad is, on paper, mercilessly stacked.

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