The Velociraptor (or, you know, the raptor) is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever, largely because of how they were used to such brilliantly scary effect in the Jurassic Park books and movies. (JP even gets a shoutout just three paragraphs in to the Velociraptor Wiki page.) But as any paleontologist worth his or her salt has likely lamented countless times, the massive, deadly raptors portrayed in the movies are totally wrong. In reality, Velociraptor was only a few feet tall and had feathers. It was basically a larger, predatory chicken. While they might have been effective predators, they certainly weren’t the size of LeBron James.
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