Velociraptor mongoliensis Sticker
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Velociraptor mongoliensis
In 1923 Roy Chapman Andrews led an expedition to the Gobi Desert on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, their hope was to find evidence of early human origins; while that quest was unsuccessful, the expedition did uncover many fossil specimens of a much more ancient variety. One such discovery was made by Peter Kaisen who came across a crushed skull and a toe claw at one of their dig sites. These remains would eventually make their way back to New York into the hands of Henry Fairfield Osborn, the president of the AMNH who gave it the scientific name of Velociraptor mongoliensis ("the swift plunderer of Mongolia").
While the name may have been made its way into the mainstream thanks to Jurassic Park, the real life animal was a very different beast than the man-sized pack hunters portrayed in the book and movie series. JP's raptors were actually based on Deinonychus, a North American cousin of Velociraptor that was much larger and who's remains showed evidence of group hunting behavior. The name of V. mongoliensis was used because the creators felt it added more drama to the franchise's antagonistic dinos.
In reality Velociraptor was roughly the size of a modern day Turkey, standing at just around 1.6 feet in height at the hip and measuring 6.8 feet in length, it likely only weighed around 33 pounds when fully grown. Like all members of the dromaeosauridae family it possessed a pair of specialized claws on the second inner toe of each foot. These claws were over-sized and were held off the ground by tendons that allowed them to retract when not in use, it's thought they deployed this menacing weaponry as a means to pin struggling prey, much like modern day eagles and hawks do.
Velociraptor is thought to have been covered in feathers, this is based on evidence from other, more primitive members of their family being found with feather evidence and from fossil evidence found on a Velociraptor arm bone showing what looks to be anchor points for large feathers structures, these structures are found on some modern birds and referred to as quill knobs.
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