Posted Oct 30, 2007 at 01:27AM by Ryan A.
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A recent finding from China-based Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology stated that despite some inaccuracies in the movie Jurassic Park, the film was right in some aspects especially when it comes to raptors. It should be remembered that the film depicted these dinosaurs as big, bad, and that they smartly roamed in packs.
Aside from already mentioned, Jurassic Park also showed these raptors as cunning and nearly as tall as humans. Related studies have already proved that those accounts were correct. Quindao Institute, now, had found evidence that the raptors did in fact hunt in packs. Study head Rihui Li shared that their team found a fossilized raptor trackway (dating around 120 to 100 million years ago) in Shandong Province. This showed footprints of six raptors, or what is more formally known as Dromeosaurs. Li added that their tracks didn't overlap, suggesting that they walked alongside a river or a stream. Furthermore, the track is measured to be 28 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide. What's more striking about this find is that the footprints indicate that the animal held the claw off the ground while walking. Scientists added that these tracks came from raptors around 1.2 meters tall at the hip with a weight equal to a full-size jaguar. |
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