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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
 
Velociraptor was very much like a Turkey from hell, about hip-high, weighted about as much as turkey (30lb).
Velociraptor was very much like a Turkey from hell, about hip-high, weighted about as much as turkey (30lb).

Spielberg's "Velociraptor" from "Jurassic Park" (1993) is now called "Deinonychus antirrhopus", but in 1990, when Crichton's novel was written, it was still called "Velociraptor antirrhopus". It was about chest-high, and weighted about as much as a man (160lb).

The largest known bird-like dinosaur (Deinonychosaurian) was Utahraptor (identified in 1991 and named in 1993), about 7ft high, weighted 1100lb, about as much as a grizzly bear. The smallest known are Mahakala, Microraptor, Anchiornis, about knee-high, weighted about as much as chicken (2 lb).

Deinonychosaurians are the sister taxon to avialans, and therefore the closest relatives of avialan birds. Happy Thanksgiving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakala_(dinosaur)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor

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