The Truth of VELOCIRAPTORS
Welcome back again, followers,
to another Historical Saturday post. I hope you all have recovered from last
week's scary post about torture. Moving away from that, today, we are going to
take a look at the Velociraptor in the late Cretaceous period.
I’m sure most of us have seen
the new movie, Jurassic World, which just annihilated box offices records. So
I’m pretty confident that you guys know about the Velociraptors, but don’t
worry, there are no spoilers!
If you have watched all four
Jurassic Park/ World movies, you would notice that the Velociraptor is an
iconic dinosaur in each movie, besides the well renowned T- Rex. Many viewers
believed that the actual real life Velociraptor looked like it. Well, if you believed that, it is time to
learn the truth about the actual raptor.
I hope the directors of the
next Jurassic Park/World movie reads this, including the main actor Chris Pratt. Plus, movie directors and design teams, please
know your stuff!!
(Jurassic Park’s
Velociraptor) (An actual remedy of a
Velociraptor)
Fact 1- Velociraptors were
Small
For a dinosaur, which was,
suppose to be a ferocious dinosaur in the movies and the meaning of its name,
it’s quite small. Velociraptors were actually the size of a modern day turkey.
The average weight of this small dinosaur was around 13 kg, and its height was
around 3 feet max (An average height of a human toddler)
Fact 2- The raptors in the
movies aren’t really Velociraptors
This is the most unfortunate
truth about the Velociraptors in the movies. Though there was a similar
dinosaur like it, and it was called the Deinonychus. The moviemakers took most
of the features of that dinosaur and replaced its skin from feathers, to
reptilian skin. They probably did this, because the name was not of a real
catch to it.
Fact 3- Velociraptors aren’t
all that smart
( Thats not in the script!!!)
I’m sure for the people who
watched the first Jurassic Park, we remember the scene where the Velociraptor
turned the kitchen doorknob? Well even the smartest dinosaur, called the
Troodon, was dumber than a newborn kitten. So it is said that a real
Velociraptor would have banged on to the door until it is knocked out.
Fact 4- Velociraptors do not
live up to their name
( Don't look at me like that)
Though as the name of the
Velociraptors implies the meaning of Speedy thief, it is not as fast as it
sounds. Sadly, even the fastest Velociraptor could be out run by an athletic
human child, plus the short turkey legs do not help.
Fact 5- Velociraptors live in
Central Asia
Many people today have
mistaken the Velociraptor to live in Central America from the movies, but that
is wrong, they lived in Central Asia. Though the Velociraptors cousin,
Deinonychus, a much more deadly type of its kind lived in America.
Fact 6- Velociraptors did not
hunt in packs
( Note to self, these aren't Velociraptors)
As Hollywood suggests that
these creatures hunted in packs, they are wrong indeed. The actual fact is that
there is no evidence of any Velociraptor to have hunted in groups. However, as
many times mentioned the Deinonychus would cooperate with each other to take
down bigger dinosaurs.
Fact 7- What did Velociraptors eat?
(Remains of a Protoceratops and Velociraptor)
Since Velociraptors aren’t
big, they don’t hunt in packs, and to make matters worse they don’t have a lot
of speed. So what can they eat or feast on? Well, they hunt for other smaller
dinosaurs, such as the Protoceratops, which were like pig-liked dinosaurs.
Well in conclusion these guys
aren’t so tough as the movie depicts them to be. Though I sure don’t want to be
with their larger cousins, plus they would make a pretty scary bird if it were
still alive. Goodness, imagine if they could fly? I wonder what would happen?
Well thanks for reading if
you have, sorry for the short article. As a token of apology I bring you some
photos of these cute animals.
