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 Velociraptor 

 Meaning: quick plunderer 

 Pronounced: vel-OSS-ee-rap-tor 


 
How Velociraptor may have looked.

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Length: up to 1.8 m

Diet: carnivorous


Period: Upper Cretaceous

Ages: Campanian

Time span: 84-80 Ma


Found in: Mongolia

Velociraptor scale

Notes: As portrayed in the 'Jurassic Park' movies, Velociraptor was recreated at twice its actual size and closely modelled on Deinonychus. Though this was seen as unscientific at the time, soon after the first film was released, a dinosaur of the same type, Utahraptor, was discovered, even larger than the virtual Velociraptors. Velociraptor is now thought to have had fine a feather-like covering. You can see an animatronic model in the Museum's Dinosaur Gallery.

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