Favorite Dromaeosaurid

Eustreptospondylus

MemberCompsognathusJuly 16, 20131337 Views13 Replies

What is your favorite Dromaeosaurid??? Mine would be a tie between Utahraptor for being possibly one of the deadliest dinosaurs known [img]http://www.planet-wissen.de/politik_geschichte/urzeit/dinosaurier/img/tempx_dino_utahraptor_g.jpg[/img] And Sinornithosaurus for being the only known venomous dinosaur [img]http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/dinos/images/png_cutouts/sinornithosaurus.png[/img]

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July 16, 2013

[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110917135459/jurassicfightclub/images/1/10/JFCDeinonychus.jpg[/img] Deinonychus. At 10-13 ft long, 6 ft tall, and 200-300 lbs, it was, in my opinion, the perfectly sized raptor. Not too big, not too small. A smart, deadly carnivore.

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July 16, 2013

Yeah Deinonychus was in my opinion probably one of the most well evolved dinosaurs known.They were exactly the nightmare that was depicted in the first Jurassic Park movie. Definitely a close second in my favorites of my favorite group of dinos.

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July 16, 2013

Actually, Deinonychus was really about the size of a wolf, Utahraptor was the one that was about the size of a person. Both of them are my favorite dromaeosaurids. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Dromie_scale.png[/img]

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July 16, 2013

Utahraptor, favorite dromeasaur, favorite dinosaur

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July 17, 2013

t-rex90, I have seen Deinonychus estimates as low as 6 ft long and 125 lbs, to as high as 20 ft long and 500 lbs. I give a length, height, and weight that's kinda in the middle. One thing I have seen a lot of for Deinonychus is a consistant height estimate of 5-6.5 ft. Just sayin ;)

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July 17, 2013

I don't really have a favorite, but I think Utahraptor's very interesting. It was the biggest and most powerful of all dromaeosaurs and it was most likely one of the smartest as well. Perhaps the perfect killing machine.

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July 17, 2013

I don't think Utahraptor was the smartest. It would have been smart, but remember, it was a pretty early raptor. Would have been somewhat primitive compared to say, Velociraptor or Deinonychus. PS- Many people think that Deinonychus and Utahraptor lived at the same time. Deinonychus actually lived a few million years after Utahraptor did. Not much later, but later nonetheless.

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July 17, 2013

Well, do we know when Utahraptor died out, or just when they lived? And I think that Utahraptor, though not the smartest, is still smarter than the next best thing, T. rex.

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July 17, 2013

Utahraptor first appeared about 126-130 million years ago. They survived until roughly 110-115 million years ago. Right after they died out, about a few million years, Deinonychus showed up. Give or take a few million years that is. All raptors were smarter than T-rex. T-rex was the smartest large theropod. This excludes the large raptors because, well, they ARE raptors after-all.

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July 17, 2013

Rex Fan, if I am correct, we have only found one Utahraptor skeleton, and even if we had found more, there still could be a chance that they lasted another few million years. And that Dienonychs showed up earlier than we have found.

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July 17, 2013

I going by what we know NOW. Not yelling or anything, just stressing my point ;) We have 1 good skeleton and some other fragments of Utahraptor. Deinonychus is actually one of, if not the, best known raptor yet. There are dozens of Deinonychus skeletons, so we have a pretty good idea of when they lived.

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July 17, 2013

Well Rex Fan, here is an analogy. You said T. rex could grow up to 50 ft max, we have no proof, but it could. So it also could be that Utahraptor died out later, and Dienonychus came in earlier.

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July 17, 2013

I'm not saying it's impossible, but like my Tyrannosaurus size theory, it's just a theory. 99.9 percent of what we "know" about dinosaurs, is theorized. There is very little we truly know.

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