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MemberCompsognathusFeb-24-2015 8:50 AMSo I'm sure that this has been asked and discussed plenty of times before but I wanted to find out from everyone. In all the Jurassic park movies we see velociraptor as an antagonist. My question to everyone is how come they used velociraptor instead of other dromeosaurs? Like Deinonycus or Utahraptor? After watching the films so many times and studying paleontology for years I am intrigued in why they chose this. Velociraptor was a very interesting dinosaur, no doubt about that, yet it is not portrayed right in the movies. It is far larher and not to scale. I have always wondered why they did not choose to use utahraptor as the better animal. It is actually the right size and was also from research possibly a more lethal predator. Anyone have thoughts?