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Velociraptor
TIME: Late Cretaceous
LOCALITY: Asia (Mongolia and China)
SIZE: 6 ft/1.8 m long
A dramatic find in Mongolia during 1971
revealed two fossilized skeletons
Velociraptor locked in combat with
the horned dinosaur Protoceratops. A great
struggle had obviously taken place, since
Velociraptor had died grasping the head
shield of Protoceratops with its hands, while
ripping into the belly with its sickle-clawed
feet. Protoceratops had managed to cave in
the chest of Velociraptor, possibly with its
horny beak, before it, too, died. No scene
could be more indicative of the ferocious
lifestyle of the dromaeosaurs in general, and
Velociraptor in particular.The long, low,
flat-snouted head of Velociraptor is the main
feature that distinguishes it from other
dromaeosaurs, which typically had short, deep
heads. In other respects, it was similar to
them, although its sickle claws were
relatively small.
Subject by: Russell Webb