Dinosaur Facts
Length: up to 1.8 m
Diet: Carnivorous
Period: Upper Cretaceous
Time Span: 84 - 80 Million Years Ago
Velociraptor was a carnivorous dinosaur which lived during the Cretaceous Period—around 75 million years ago. Discovered in the Gobi Desert on August 11th.
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Description
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Velociraptor was a carnivorous dinosaur which lived during the Cretaceous Period—around 75 million years ago. This species of dinosaur was first discovered by Peter Kaisen in the Gobi Desert on August 11th, 1923. A year later, it was given the name Velociraptor. This name combines the Latin word “Velox”, which means swift and the Latin word “Raptor” which means robber.
While this dinosaur has received a lot of attention because it is prominently featured in the Jurassic Park series of movies, scientists believe that the ones in the movie bear little resemblance to those which actually lived in real life. The dinosaurs depicted in these movie were actually based on Deinonychus and not true Velociraptors. In real life, they were only about the size of a turkey and had feathers, and weren’t the man-sized reptilian dinosaurs they were depicted in the film. The average Velociraptor weighed approximately 30 pounds and stood a little bit over 3 feet tall.
Another interesting fact about the Velociraptor is that it isn’t believed to have been as fast as it was portrayed in the Jurassic Park films. In fact, most scientists believe that these dinosaurs could run at a top speed of about 40 miles per hour. Much slower than a cheetah (60 mph) or a lion (50 mph), although it is quite a bit faster than a human at top speed (28 mph).
According to the latest research, it is believed that the Velociraptor hunted and scavenged for small animals. Its diet most likely consisted of reptiles, small mammals, insects and smaller dinosaurs. Although it is usually depicted as being an aggressive hunter in the movies, more than likely it was more of a scavenger than a hunter.
Velociraptor Facts
- They have hollow bones like a bird
- Their name means “swift robber”
- They were carnivorous scavengers
- They weighed less than an average turkey
- They lived around Central Asia and Mongolia
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Width: 4.75cm
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