Raptor Dinosaur

Velociraptor ( pron.: /vɨˈlɒsɨræptər/ ; meaning 'swift seizer') [1]  is a  genus of  dromaeosaurid  theropod  dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71  million years ago during the later part of the  Cretaceous<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Period<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PGetal2008_2-0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[2] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The  type species<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">is  V. mongoliensis<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">;  fossils<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> of this species have been discovered in  Mongolia<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">. A second species,  V. osmolskae<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">,  China<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. It was abipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey.Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Velociraptor (commonly shortened to 'raptor') is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Parkmotion picture series. In the films it was shown with anatomical inaccuracies, including being much larger than it was in reality and without feathers. It is also well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons—the most of any dromaeosaurid. One particularly famous specimen preserves aVelociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.