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I actually learned the bit about Raptors and Deinonychus from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would never mention velociraptors, but several times mentioned packs of
by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I actually learned the bit about Raptors and Deinonychus from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would never mention velociraptors, but several times mentioned packs of hungry deinonychus. Being a 10 year old boy when Jurassic Park came out and being obsessed with dinosaurs, I looked up what Calvin was talking about and learned that raptors were modeled after this smaller dinosaur, and that they were about the size of a turkey, not the size they are in the movies.
- karatestomp 6y agoIn the book they're specifically Velociraptor antirrhopus (rather than mongoliensis), which, as I understand it, actually was a name for Deinonychus antirrhopus for a while before they settled on the current hame. So they (kinda) really are supposed to be Deinonychus. [EDIT] ah, I see the article covers that.
- mattbk1 6y agoThe larger _Utahraptor_ was discovered while the movie was being written/made, but only the consulting paleontologists knew they were making the raptors so large for the movie.