Carnosaurs were a small, agile type of theropod. One of the most widely-known carnosaurs was the Velociraptor, which is considerably smaller than depicted in the "Jurassic Park" films. Sauropods, on the other hand, were enormous, four-legged herbivores like Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus and ...
Velociraptor. Carnivore or herbivore? Which one? The Velociraptor. CS: Is the Velociraptor a carnivore or an herbivore? S4: Carnivore. BB: Is it really? CS: I think so. BB: What about a Triceratops? The Triceratops is my favorite. S4: It eats only plants. BB: It’s a vegetarian?
The Speed Stinger is described as the Velociraptor of the dragon world, being extremely intelligent and cunning. These dragons are ravenous scavengers that will often steal from other dragons and Vikings, but they probably also hunt, though whether they hunt large or small prey is unclear. They ...
The mighty Utahraptor (“YOU-tah-RAP-tor”) was three times larger and meaner than its cousin, the Velociraptor. Armed with a 30-centimetre (12-inch)-long sickle-shaped claw on each hind foot, it would kick, rip and tear its prey to death. Its leg bones were unusually thick, in ord...
Their delicate bones preserve poorly, often yielding only fragments of a skeleton. What dinosaurs are still alive? Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, ...
Figure 8: Dinosaurs and Velociraptors are connected in a Mind Map When you link two ideas or concepts in a Concept Map, the connection has a specific direction and a short description. Figure 9: “Velociraptors are a genus of Dinosaurs” ...
and perhaps even significantly less for a fully grown, 10-ton adult. In other words, the average large theropod may have exhausted itself trying to run down a grade-schooler on a bicycle. This wouldn't make for a very thrilling scene in a Hollywood movie, but it more closely conforms to...
Velociraptor. Not the Spielberg version: correctly drawn with feathers. CREDIT: 02 LEONELLO / GETTY IMAGES The next twist in the tale of bird evolution was added by American palaeontologist John Ostrom. He resurrected Huxley’s theory by showing numerous similarities between the skeleton...
not look all that different from those of regular chickens. The team created digital models of their skulls with a computed tomography scanner and found that some of these more closely resembled the bones of early birds such asArchaeopteryxand dinosaurs such asVelociraptor, than unmodified chickens....
The Indoraptor was a hybrid of the Indominus Rex and Velociraptor DNA, created by Henry Wu in a basement lab as a weapon. This card illustrates a scene where the Indoraptor escapes while being sold at auction and chases people onto the roof of the building. Beautifully silhouetted by the fu...