Velociraptors were small, agile and slender
dinosaurs with up-curved skull
?s and large sickle claw
?s. They had strong jaw
?s with rows of bladed teeth
?. These, in combination with very big claws on their hands and on one of their toe
?s (the size of these claws could reach up to the length of the teeth on extinct [sabertooth tiger]
?s) gave these some some impressive weaponry. Some different species have been found:
Velociraptor antirrhopus (Ostrum, 1969)
(Synonym : Deinonychus Antirrhopus)
- Skull length : 410 mm.
- Total length : 3.4 m.
- Hip height : 0.87 m.
- Weight : 73 kilograms
Velociraptor mongoliensis (Osborn, 1924)
- Skull length : 249 mm.
- Total length : 2.7 m.
- Hip height : 0.5 m.
- Weight : 15 kilograms
Talk section:
I vaguely remember that "Deinonychus antirrhopus" is now considered correct, that better specimens found in the last 10 years or so show that it is really not in the Velociraptor genus. Do we have any real paleontologists here with an opinion? BTW the "velociraptors" in the Jurassic Park movies are probably supposed to be antirrhopus, they certainly aren't Velociraptor mongoliensis. (But in any case they are wrong in several ways.)
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