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Velociraptor, the eponymous "raptor" of the Jurassic Park franchise. This is based on a virtually complete specimen held at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The suffix "raptor" is often translated as thief or robber, but "plunderer" strikes me as more accurate, since the term seems to have originally applied to outside invaders (think barbarians) and their activities when sacking a village (both to village, and to the villagers). As such the name probably should carry somewhat more sinister connotations than a small feathered theropod that wants to make off with your stereo.
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~TrixieRyuu May 7, 2013
Hell I remember my face when I realized that JP raptors refer to this little critter. (Not that I don't like the real one)
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~Wynterhawke07 May 16, 2013
The raptors were supposed to be Deinonychus, which the palaeontologists Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg consulted considered to be a species of Velociraptor.
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~action-figure-opera Mar 22, 2013
How long do you think a velociraptor egg was? I've been contemplating making a velociraptor nest for a long time, but have put very little effort into getting anything sorted out.
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*ScottHartman Mar 22, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Half the volume of a lesser rhea egg?
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~action-figure-opera Mar 22, 2013
I was hoping you could tell me in inches, like from tip-to-tip.
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*ScottHartman Mar 24, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
I'd guess somewhere between 3.5 and 4 inches, and I'd presume they are shaped like troodontid eggs.
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~action-figure-opera Mar 24, 2013
Excellent. I suspected exactly both those details. Thanks.
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~Gojira5000 Mar 19, 2013
I was mucking about with this skeletal, removed the bones from it, and fleshed it out, and somehow, from a basic Velociraptor-like animal no less, I got a omnivorous dromaeosaurid the size of a African forest elephant that preys upon ankylosaurs:
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Not sure if I should be worried about this or not, or if this speculative dromaeosaur could even function at that size. :P
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~Gojira5000 Mar 19, 2013
Before I forget, this is at the end of the description:

"Credit where credit is due; thanks :iconscotthartman:, for the skeletal this was based on."
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*ScottHartman Mar 22, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks, I appreciate it. :)
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