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A lifesize model of a Dracoraptor at the National Museum Cardiff. The first Dracoraptor fossils were discovered in 2014 near the Welsh town of Penarth.In March 2014, brothers and amateur palaeontologists Nick and Rob Hanigan, while searching for ichthyosaur remains at Lavernock Point, a large cape south of Cardiff, found stone plates containing dinosaur fossils which had fallen off the 7-metre ...
Utahraptor is a member of the family Dromaeosauridae, a clade of theropod dinosaurs commonly known as "raptors". Utahraptor is the largest known genus in the family and belongs to the same clade of other notable dinosaurs such as Velociraptor , Deinonychus , or Dromaeosaurus .
Gideon Mantell's famous original Iguanodon drawing with the incorrect placement of the thumb spike on Iguanodon's nose. Photo credit: Commons:User:Mgiganteus Life restoration of Velociraptor mongoliensis with extensive feathering
Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent.. The research ...
Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They date from the early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation (Aptian stage), 125 to 120 million years ago.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Family of theropod dinosaurs Dromaeosaurids Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N A collection of dromaeosaurid fossil skeletons. Clockwise from upper left: Deinonychus antirrhopus (a heavily built eudromaeosaur), Buitreraptor gonzalezorum (a long-snouted unenlagiine ...
Hypothetical life restoration as a megaraptoran. The type specimen of Rapator was originally described as a metacarpal I, a bone from the upper part of a theropod's hand. [3] It was later noted that the bone is similar to a finger bone, the first phalanx of the first finger, of an alvarezsaur [9] or of a primitive coelurosaurian similar to Nqwebasaurus. [10]
Austroraptor (/ ˌ ɔː s t r oʊ ˈ r æ p t ər / AW-stroh-RAP-tər) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.