Yeah it is. This is just a model of the famous fossil. I made a mistake
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Nah I mean, that Velociraptor looks EXACTLY like the skeleton in Jurassic Park. Velociraptors didn't actually look like that at all. Spielberg changed their appearance to make them more scary.
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They are actually 2-3 feet in height and around 6.8 feet long. Weighing somewhere around 33 pounds and were feathered.That's what I was trying to say.
What this image is isn't a replica of a real found fossil, but most likely an art project or early designing for Jurassic Park
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The fossils of the two animals were discovered in 1971, some 19 years before Jurassic Park was written.
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Ah then nvm, but that doesn't explain why the raptor looks like that
Like, that skeleton is the spitting image of the one Alan Grant found in the beginning of the movie, it's just contorted to wrap around another herbivore.
This replica was most likely made years after the discovery and that's why it looks like Spielberg's raptor because it's impossible for it to look like that otherwise since raptors don't look like that at all
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OKAY I DID SOME DIGGING
I was half right. What is shown up there is an Utahraptor which is a cousin of the velociraptor. Utahraptor are what Spielberg based his raptors on. So that makes this way more plausible.
Sorry to harass you about it, but dinos are my thing
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Dinosaurs are also my thing, hence the whole "Daily Dose of Prehistory" thing.
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That's true. I forgot you were doing that. I wanna be an archaeologist but I have no idea how to go about doing that
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The herbivore is a Protoceratops which about the size of a sheep
@king_me Might be, I haven't seen those because it was hidden under the "show replies" / "show comments" thing. So it's just a small misunderstanding, I guess.
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They are actually 2-3 feet in height and around 6.8 feet long. Weighing somewhere around 33 pounds and were feathered.That's what I was trying to say.
What this image is isn't a replica of a real found fossil, but most likely an art project or early designing for Jurassic Park
Like, that skeleton is the spitting image of the one Alan Grant found in the beginning of the movie, it's just contorted to wrap around another herbivore.
This replica was most likely made years after the discovery and that's why it looks like Spielberg's raptor because it's impossible for it to look like that otherwise since raptors don't look like that at all
I was half right. What is shown up there is an Utahraptor which is a cousin of the velociraptor. Utahraptor are what Spielberg based his raptors on. So that makes this way more plausible.
Sorry to harass you about it, but dinos are my thing