VELOCIRAPTOR

vəlŏsˈĭrăpˌtər [Gr.,=swift robber], swift bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period. It was relatively small, being approximately 6 ft (1.8 m) long. It was similar to Deinonychus in appearance and, like that dinosaur, had a lethal sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each three-toed foot, which was used for attacking prey. Fossil skeletons have been found in Mongolia. A find of particular interest, discovered in the Gobi desert in 1971, revealed a Velociraptor in the act of attacking another dinosaur, the herbivorous Protoceratops.Velociraptor belongs to the group of saurischian theropods [Gr.,=beast feet] that includes Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, and living birds.

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books on: Velociraptor  - 30 results

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Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions
Book by Peter D. Ward; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Biological Diversity, Catastrophes (Geology), Extinction (Biology)
...Deinonychus and closely related forms such as Velociraptor became the symbols of the new dinosaurs. Velociraptor, whose name means fast-running robber...of tail stiffeners and the fact that Velociraptor had one of the largest brains known...
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Michael Crichton: A Critical Companion
Book by Elizabeth A. Trembley; Greenwood Press, 1996
...dinosaurs, has been replaced as the ultimate evil by the velociraptor. The large, lumbering corporate power has begun to topple...are in; constrained hugeness has become a tragic flaw. Velociraptor is everything that modern corporate life values in a tough...
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Learning Conversations in Museums
Book by Gaea Leinhardt, Kevin Crowley, Karen Knutson; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
...And this is the hind claw. Whats a hind claw? (pause) A claw from the back leg from a velociraptor. And you know what B: Hey! Hey! A velociraptor! I had that one my inaudible dinosaur. M: I know, I know and that was the little one...
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Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say
Book by J. David Archibald; Columbia University Press, 1996
Subjects: Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Extinction (Biology)
...Van Valen, L., 40 , 41 , 48 - 49 , 117 - 118 ?Varanidae, 85 , 102 Varves, lake, 3 Velociraptor and ? Velociraptor , 34 , 85 , 111 , 112 Velociraptors, 24 Vertebrata, 19 , 82 Vertebrates, characters of, 21 - 22 ; relationships between...
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Education, Entertainment, and Learning in the Home
Book by David Buckingham, Margaret Scanlon; Open University Press, 2003
Subjects: Home And School--Great Britain, Mass Media And Education--Great Britain, Recreation--Great Britain
...are presented as having an almost demonic nature. The velociraptor is an- other bogeyman in the dinosaur world, though it...savage of these pack-hunters might have been the theropod Velociraptor. (p. 26) The crime metaphor (lethal weapons, life of...
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journal articles on: Velociraptor  - 4 results

 
 
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Keynote Address
Journal article by Stephen Jay Gould; Social Research, Vol. 62, 1995
Subjects: Social Sciences
...turns around -- because the fossil he is talking about is Velociraptor -- and says, "Even the word raptor means bird of prey...dinosaurs must be birds -- because this dinosaur is named Velociraptor . It is a wonderful example, because "raptor," in English...
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The Dual Aspect of Fantasy: Flight from Reality or Imaginative Realm? Considerations and Hypotheses from Clinical Psychoanalysis1
Journal article by Laura Colombi; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 91, 2010
...2 Entire sessions became the scene of actual transformations that captured him, in which he was a primitive animal: a velociraptor, a brontosaurus, a pterodactyl. Like his activities, his drawings (showing confused geographical borders and intricate...
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Crowd Control: Early Cinema, Sound, and Digital Images
Journal article by Eric S. Faden; Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 53, 2001
Subjects: Crowd control, Digital imaging, Theaters & cinemas
...The film concerns genetically engineered dinosaurs living in a supposedly controlled, Disney-like theme park. After a velociraptor consumes a gamekeeper just prior to the parks grand opening, a skittish insurance company threatens closure unless the park...
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Phylogenies & Tree-Thinking
Journal article by David A. Baum, Susan Offner; The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Evolutionary biology--Study and teaching, Phylogeny--Study and teaching
...are part of a clade that included a number of fast-running, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. These dinosaurs had feathers and are thought to have been homeothermic. The high metabolic needs of these animals probably...


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magazine articles on: Velociraptor  - 44 results

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Rethinking Velociraptor
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 116, December 2007
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History, Birds, Dinosaurs
Rethinking Velociraptor Remember those rapacious Velociraptors stalking children in the...presence of feathers in Velociraptor, one of the most iconic...the group examined was a Velociraptor forearm unearthed in Mongolia...
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Church and State: Californians to Face Voucher "Velociraptor."
Magazine article by Edd Doerr; The Humanist, Vol. 53, September 1993
Subjects: California--Social policy, Church and state--Analysis, Educational vouchers--Laws, regulations and rules
Church and State: Californians to Face Voucher "Velociraptor." by Edd Doerr On November 2, 1993, California...other private schools--a plan about as nasty as the velociraptors in Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park. The California...
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An Egg Thief Exonerated
Magazine article by James M. Clark; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Embryos, Gobi Desert, Paleontology
...meat eaters to which Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor belong--its skull was unusual...a hatchling theropod reminiscent of Velociraptor. One of these even had eggshell adhering...inhabitant of our egg could be an embryonic Velociraptor. At the end of the summer, we returned...
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Bumpy Bones: Fossil Hints That Dinosaur Had Feathery Forearms
Magazine article by S. Perkins; Science News, Vol. 172, September 22, 2007
Subjects: Bones--Observations, Dinosaurs--Physiological aspects, Dromaeosaurids--Physiological aspects, Feathers, Fossils--Observations
...described fossils of Velociraptor mangoliensis in 1924...remains of only about 20 velociraptors, and most discoveries...old fossils of a velociraptor unearthed in the Gobi...not seen on other velociraptors: a series of six...
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Why Cladistics?
Magazine article by Eugene S. Gaffney, Lowell Dingus, Miranda K. Smith; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Classification, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Paleontology
...probably very like Deinonychus or Velociraptor. These dinosaurs, which belong to...rise to animals like Deinonychus and Velociraptor, rather than the other way around...dromaeosaurs, including Deinonychus and Velociraptor. However, we have yet to find fossils...
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newspaper articles on: Velociraptor  - 86 results

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Fierceness in WD VelociRaptor and Scorpio Hard Drives
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 6, 2010
Subjects: Computer peripherals industry, Hard disk drives, Hard disks, Western Digital Corp.
...with the release of the VelociRaptor X 400GB and 600GB as well...will sure love the latest VelociRaptor hard drives. It is the...also be amazed with the VelociRaptors 2.5-inch form factor...option for consumers is the VelociRaptor hard drive with available...
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Latest Action Figures Face Velociraptors and Demons
Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, July 7, 2001
...Latest action figures face velociraptors and demons by Joseph Szadkowski...Vault. RE-AK A-TAK VELOCIRAPTOR Hasbro brings to three...research for his new theory of velociraptor intelligence, renowned...island, the intelligent velociraptor, previously lived in the...
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A New Rock Dinosaur; CDs
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 18, 2011
...her fervent early works. Kasabian Velociraptor! Colombia, out now pounds sterling14...hope so, at least, because the real velociraptor of 75million years ago was kneehigh...prehistoric chicken, however vicious. And Velociraptor! isnt a record designed to peck at...
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Wishbone Links Species: Gobi Desert Find Indicates Dinosaur Was Bird Ancestor
Newspaper article by Amy Fagan; The Washington Times, November 16, 1997
...the first evidence of a wishbone in a Velociraptor, which belongs in a group of dinosaurs...typically present in flying creatures. The Velociraptor did not fly, so the bones presence...from dinosaurs. The discovery of the Velociraptor furcula flies in the face of new research...
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Forget Everywhere Else - We Just Want to Play Here; Music Writer Jade Wright Talks to Kasabian Ahead of Their ECHO Arena Gig
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), September 30, 2011
...as part of their upcoming Velociraptor! tour. That will be the...after their fourth album, Velociraptor!, which came out this...absolutely loved the idea. "The velociraptor was the only dinosaur which...had a band hed call it The Velociraptors, and it felt right to use...
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encyclopedia articles on: Velociraptor  - 4 results

 
 
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Velociraptor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VELOCIRAPTOR v los irap t r Gr.,=swift robber...in the Gobi desert in 1971, revealed a Velociraptor in the act of attacking another dinosaur, the herbivorous Protoceratops. Velociraptor belongs to the group of saurischian theropods...
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Deinonychus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fast-moving predator. It belongs to the group of saurischian theropods Gr.,=beast feet that includes Tyrannosaurus , Velociraptor , and living birds. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Dinosaur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...beast feet, a group sharing hind feet with only three functional toes (e.g., the carnivorous bipeds Tyrannosaurus , Velociraptor , Deinonychus , and possibly the living birds); others were sauropods Gr.,=lizard feet with small heads and long necks...
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Bird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...species. Birds are believed to be extant members of a group of dinosaurs called maniraptors (other maniraptors include Velociraptor and Oviraptor ). They share with dinosaurs such characteristics as a foot with three primary toes and one accessory toe...


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