Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?

Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever li... by chongli on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#17995343)

Perhaps you're thinking of the creatures we saw in Jurassic Park? Yeah, those are somewhat inaccurate. Velociraptor, for example, was the size of a turkey and covered in feathers, with its long tail held upwards, like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#/media/File%3AV...

Yeah, basically a weird bird.

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Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever li... by samatman on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:12PM (#17995360)

The velociraptors in the book, and to a lesser degree the movie, were modelled after Deinonychus.

Michael Crichton thought, correctly, that Velociraptor was a better name.

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Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever li... by PakG1 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @03:16PM (#17995653)

No doubt. I still preferred the name Raptor to Gecko, too bad it couldn't stay that way.

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