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Bookmark or Share- Velociraptor, facts and photos - National GeographicNovember 18, 2020. • 6 min read. Velociraptors have been misunderstood ever since they were featured in Jurassic Park as giant scaly dinosaurs that hunted in packs and disemboweled prey with ...
- Velociraptor | Description, Size, Diet, & Facts | BritannicaVelociraptor, (genus Velociraptor), sickle-clawed dinosaur that flourished in central and eastern Asia during the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 million years ago). It is closely related to the North American Deinonychus of the Early Cretaceous in that both reptiles were dromaeosaurs.
- Velociraptor | Natural History Museum1.8m. Weight: 7kg. Diet: carnivorous. Teeth: lots of sharp, pointed teeth. Food: other animals. How it moved: on 2 legs. When it lived: Late Cretaceous, 74-70 million years ago. Found in: Mongolia. As portrayed in the Jurassic Park movies, Velociraptor was recreated at twice its actual size and closely modelled on Deinonychus.
- Velociraptor - National Geographic KidsVelociraptor. It had feathers, but this dino couldn’t fly. A pack of two-legged creatures sprints across a desert about 70 million years ago. The dinos are each about six feet from the tip of their noses to the end of their long tails, but they’re only about as tall as a turkey. The group spots a Protoceraptops, an older cousin of Triceratops.
- 10 Facts About the Velociraptor Dinosaur - ThoughtCoBy. Bob Strauss. Updated on September 26, 2019. Thanks to the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies, the Velociraptor is one of the world's most well-known dinosaurs. However, there's a huge difference between the Hollywood version of the Velociraptor and the less imposing one familiar to paleontologists.
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