May 14, 2007: How to spot T. Rex footprints

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by snais

Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all.

Spielberg based the Velociraptor off the dinosaur Deinonychus, which means "terrible claw" in some random language.

[Nightsong]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Spielberg based the Velociraptor off the dinosaur Deinonychus, which means "terrible claw" in some random language.

Then, just after that release came the news of the utahraptor. To quote Wikipedia

Utahraptor had a huge curved claw on the second toe that could grow to 23 cm (almost 9 inches) long. Up to 6.5 meters (22 feet) long, 2 meters (6 feet) tall and 700 kg (1500lbs) in weight, Utahraptor would have been a formidable predator.[1]


Would have looked a lot like the Raptors from JP