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[[Image:deinonychus.jpg|thumb|right|A fossilized ''Deinonychus antirrhopus'' skeleton.]]
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'''Deinonychus''' was a small, human-sized carnivorous dinosaur. It had a long, sickle-like claw on the end of its big toe. It ate everything it could.
 
  
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'''Deinonychus''' was a small, bipedal, [[Cretaceous|Cretaceous-era]] carnivorous dinosaur. It had a long, sickle-like claw on the end of its big toe. ''Deinonychus'' [[fossils]] were first discovered in 1931 by Barnum Brown in southern [[Montana]]. In 1964 the fossils were designated ''Deinonychus antirrhopus'' by John Ostrom and Grant Meyer.
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A fossilized Deinonychus antirrhopus skeleton.

Deinonychus was a small, bipedal, Cretaceous-era carnivorous dinosaur. It had a long, sickle-like claw on the end of its big toe. Deinonychus fossils were first discovered in 1931 by Barnum Brown in southern Montana. In 1964 the fossils were designated Deinonychus antirrhopus by John Ostrom and Grant Meyer.