Difference between revisions of "Velociraptor"
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== Stephen Spielberg's ''Jurassic Park'' == | == Stephen Spielberg's ''Jurassic Park'' == | ||
Revision as of 10:33, June 16, 2007
Velociraptor is the name for a small, fast-running, carnivorous dinosaur. Velociraptor was small for a dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 1.8 meters (5.9 ft) long, 0.62 meters (2 ft) high at the hip, and weighing 20 kilograms (45 lb)[1] The velociraptor is now extinct.
According to young-Earth creationists, the velociraptor was created on the sixth creation day (approximately 6000 B.C.)[2][3] and became extinct sometime in the last 4,350 years since the Flood.
Evolutionists believe that the velociraptor existed between 99 and 65 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous.[4]
Stephen Spielberg's Jurassic Park
The Velociraptor played a prominent part in Stephen Spielberg's motion picture Jurassic Park in which it was misrepresented as a much larger creature. It was in fact merely the size of a turkey.[5] The version of the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park more closely resembled a Deinonychus.
References
- ↑ Norell, M.A. & Makovicky, P.J. 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton II: information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. American Museum Novitates 3282
- ↑ http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/gen_1-2.shtml
- ↑ http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm
- ↑ Velociraptor in Encyclopedia Britannica
- ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/velociraptor