Nah, you’re thinking of the much more dangerous “acceleraptors”. Velociraptors were very different from how they are commonly portrayed.
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defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoThat’s why they’re called velociraptors.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
railwhale@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
So then distanceraptors are yet to be discoverd?
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No, much like how brontosaurus was later discovered to be a mix of bones from various individuals, “Distanceraptor” is actually a conflation of multiple Displacemosaurids.
ellohir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry to break these news to you but in 2015 they discovered that Brontosaurus actually existed, so the “it was a mix of other species bones” is wrong, as much as a fun fact it was 😟
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I thought they were called like this because of their love of bicycles.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jaws was never their scene.