1st October 2007, 5:33 PM
The velociraptor is small, like chicken small. The thing in those movies is a lot closer (if you are looking at size) to a Utah Raptor. Yeah, that name sucks compared to "veloci" but if you just drop the prefix you have a cool name again.
This won't be the last revision. The only thing scientists can do is say "based on the best available evidence, this is what we think they looked like". More data, more revisions. It took some special fossil to find out that many dinosaurs had a heart much closer to warm blooded mammals than reptiles.
This won't be the last revision. The only thing scientists can do is say "based on the best available evidence, this is what we think they looked like". More data, more revisions. It took some special fossil to find out that many dinosaurs had a heart much closer to warm blooded mammals than reptiles.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)