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It should be noted that Deinonychus was being referred to by some as "Velociraptor Antirrhopus" around the time Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, which is why he called them Velociraptors in the book. I believe it was Spielberg who decided to keep the name for the film adaptation because it sounded more dramatic.
Yep. Crichton was correct at the time the book was written, and Spielberg wanted to take even more liberties with Jurassic Park, but was discouraged by Bob Bakker thankfully
@demoths I'm probably in the minority with this take: But I actually like the scientific inaccuracies in the Jurassic films because I feel they help further illustrate one of the franchise's main themes, which is to never mess with the natural order. InGen didn't bring back the Dinosaurs. By tampering with their genetic code, they went and created things, unnatural abominations, that never existed to begin with. I think the inaccurate Dinosaur designs (among other things) reflect that perfectly.
@@TheHallow31this came up in the first book and possibly the second - Dr. Wu manipulated the animals so much it wasn't appropriate to say these were "real" dinosaurs. He and Hammond argued over color, size, natural aggressiveness vs being calmer for audiences, etc. Either in the second book or second movie, Grant called them genetically engineered monsters. Any inaccuracies by the movie makers on the dinos could be chalked up to this deliberate or accidental genetic tampering.
@@kyachdistent1301 it still exemplifies the genetic engineering angle. Because in the movie, the dinosaurs aren’t brought back with 100% pure code, they’re spliced with multiple other creatures, changing their look
i was 13 when JP came out but Deinonychus was my favorite dino going back to when i was 6 and got abook about them. i was upset by the book making the name swap wheni read it at 10 and then the movie upset me further.
@@DrSpooglemon Velociraptor and Deinonychus, both of whom have appeared in various Jurassic Park/World media, have inaccurate designs - where as Utahraptor does, which makes ironic.
My favorite dinosaur is the utahraptor and it was Alan Grant’s speech about the 6ft turkeys that made me want to be a paleontologist back when I was in diapers 😂 despite the scientific inaccuracies, Jurassic Park is a movie very near and dear to my heart lol ❤
Same here. I loved dinosaurs growing up. My son loves them too. He was born right around the time JP was released. When he was little, he couldn't understand how dinosaurs weren't alive when he could see them in the movies lol. Then he asked me one day if I had been alive when the dinosaurs were. I said i just missed them by about 65 million years. 😂 We both love dinosaurs movies.
Deinonychus has always been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid. It's a travesty they didn't think "terrible claw" wasn't cool enough of a name. But, as someone else in the comments said. Some paleontologists were calling Deinonychus as "velociraptor anthirhopus". Eitherway, they did Deinonychus dirty lol.
Terrible claw is a very cool name, but most people that watch the movies probably won't know that Deinonychus means terrible claw, nor the exact meaning of Velociraptor. They do know of raptors and velocity, so a name that has connections with those terms is clearly superior for your fast moving vicious killers
@@bartelvandervelden9894 in their defense they could have added a line mentioning what it meant, perhaps with our main character explaining to the kid exactly *why* they earned the name of Terrible Claw
But they don't have beaks and they have four claws, not two, so how could they've had feathers like a hawk? That's why the feather theory makes no sense
@@SteezyRedStars They had quill knobs in their bones, which are used for anchoring the organs that grow pennaceous feathers. We've also got fossils of dinosaurs closely related with their feathers preserved.
Jurassic Park is actually brilliant. Not only did it spawn an entire new generation of Dino enthusiasts, but it also highlighted how corporate greed can pervert nature. The base nature of Velociraptors was absolutely corrupted, turning them more into monsters than animals, yet over time life, uh, finds a way.
@@srobeck77Utahraptor was discovered during filming. Jurassic park velociraptors were based on deinonychus as Michael Crichton used an outdated theory that deinonychus was a subspecies of velociraptor.
@@Simon-zs9iy incorrect. the first Utah raptor was discovered in 1975. And point still stands. It was just a naming thing. Now move on with your nerd life to something more meaningful.
Nowadays it’s become cliche to dismiss Velociraptor as a “wimpy” animal, but it was still surprisingly formidable for its size. As with most other derived dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was well-suited to tackle relatively large prey (often around its own weight, and in some cases larger), though due to its small size “relatively large prey" would have meant things like other small theropods and, in ambitious cases, Protoceratops, rather than anything particularly substantial. Its adaptations for tackling such prey are similar overall to that of other derived dromaeosaurs, such as well-developed ziphont dentition for efficiently cutting through flesh, a relatively large and well-developed sickle claw, and a foot anatomy that sacrificed some speed (though it was still reasonably fast-some formulas used to calculate dinosaur speeds give it a speed of 40kmh) in exchange for improved agility and foot-based grappling capabilities. Despite the popular scene of Velociraptor and Tarbosaurus showed living together in Prehistoric Planet, Velociraptor actually lived around 75MYA in Mongolia, being known from the Djadochta Formation which is older than the Nemegt Formation where Tarbosaurus lived. Only known dromaeosaurid lived with Tarbosaurus was Adasaurus, a slightly larger close relative of Velociraptor. While nowadays, the formation area is part of the Gobi Desert, and while it wasn’t always a desert, it had been a desert on one previous occasion-when Velociraptor was around. And as with most desert animals alive today, Velociraptor was likely nocturnal, as indicated by sclerotic ring studies.
Meh... If a full grown adult human male came face to face with a single velociraptor they could probably beat the animal to a pulp. Fighting a pack of them that would suck though. Coming face to face with a Utahraptor would be your end.
they are related to eagles after all, known for killing animals many many times larger than themselves. Always loved the prehistoric planet depiction of them, they look like land eagles
@@stevenbahena5956 if the adult male human is using a tool/weapon like a spear or a heavy stone the velociraptor doesn't stand a chance. That's how humans have hunted their prey since the dawn of time. The raptor would probably run from a human charging it. Where I live in Florida we have black bears and Florida Panthers and they usually run away if you start toward them aggressively. These animals weigh a lot more then what a velociraptor would weigh. I get the feeling those raptors would learn quickly to avoid humans.
The specimen of the raptor and the protoceratops is goddamn astonishing. The things we are able to find, the things all of Nature and Spirit have allowed to be preserved for other creatures, and for humans to find, never ceases to humble me. Imagine what other glorious and telling treasures will be discovered in our lifetimes 🥰
I like to imagine a velociraptor holding on with the front claws and making jabbing bites while rabbit kicking like a cat. Idk if its accurate, but its fun to imagine a velociraptor rabbit kicking the shit out of its prey
Its always so weird to me that folks still assume velociraptors had to be pack animals because cats are the most popular pets in the world and they're small and quite deadly solitary hunters. Anyway hoping someday for a new movie franchise to pop up that depicts them more accurately just because I think they're plenty cool as is, not every dinosaur has to be something that could easily eat a person lol.
To be fair, if we're assuming velociraptor reached its max speed only in short bursts, it seems more appropriate to compare their max speed with that of sprinting cyclists. In that case, their max speed is almost exactly the same, the cyclists being faster by just a hair (or maybe a feather)
I remember reading the forward to Raptor red, whilst working on Jurassic park Bob Baker had a call from a colleague who had found the Utah raptor to which Baker commented “you’ve found Spielberg’s raptor!”
6:30 I wouldn't be surprised if living in a mostly dry environment with large hills and open spaces would have allowed the velociraptor to out pace larger threats by climbing hills and then jumping to semi glide down the other side and land safely on dirt, dust or sand
Also the fact jurrasic park sparked the idea of dilophosaurus having a frill(it never did and now dilophosaurus has a frill in almost any media it’s in)
Because of the hook claw I highly doubt that raptors lived and hunted on ground level. such claw has very little advantages over more powerful jaws and front limbs, as the attack power doesn't come from the size of the claw but the muscles behind it, meanwhile they come with the high risk of tangling into all vegetation and roots (the open hook claw acts like anchor hanging off from the boat, tangling into everything that crosses its way), risking injury and getting caught by larger predators. why would evolution then favor it over stronger jaws and front limbs? my theory is that raptors were tree climbers and used the hook claw for climbing and grabbing on tree trunks while waiting for unsuspecting prey to pass under the tree. their hunting method was diving onto the prey from the tree, gaining massive attack power from the speed of the dive to weaponize the overly size claw. as more precise dive meant more prey, this would have naturally put pressure on the evolution of flying feathers, as the raptors (or their common ancestor with birds) would have learned to control the dive, eventually leading into the evolution of powered flight. it's also notable that the hook claw wasn't serrated meaning it's very well suited for climbing but not optimized as a weapon. ps. owls are among the most primitive birds alive today, and they still use this exact hunting strategy.
they lived in the desert tho, so probably not enough trees to climb and not enough vegetation to be a nuisance my theory is that they could have used it to latch on the prey like big felines do with their dew claw. Although the theory in the video seems to have more evidence
@@thelionoob I doubt the estimations of weather conditions from 70 million years are that accurate we can say for certain what type the terrain was. it's a thin layer of soil and minuscule amount of fossils after all the entire estimation is based on. certainly it's not so accurate we could say that there were no trees present that day, suppose it was above the water. and any vegetation is anyways where the animal hides and stalks the prey in, so it will be inevitably a nuisance, even if the terrain would be mostly open. but if my theory is wrong, then it's really just big mystery why they had such out of proportion claw, as they do come with very big disadvantages and very little obvious advantages. latching onto the prey animal doesn't require such overly big claw it risks the animals survival, and puncturing vital organs comes with the problem of power; the bigger the claw the more power it requires to penetrate the thick skin of the prey. if the prey animals were smaller however, then the need for big claw would also lose its importance, which should again put the weight on the disadvantages of such claw.
Wasn't there a recent theory where they proposed the claw was used for raptors to use "raptor prey restrant" where the claws anchor them to prey they have toppled over so they can eat small peices of the prey at a time until the prey dies. I'm pretty sure that's the leading theory of their claw atm. Look it up. it's pretty interesting.
@@chantelstenner2553 either way you still wouldnt want to run into a pack of Velociraptors or deinonychus'es regardles of teh fact thart vel's are only 1 foot tall and deins are typcially 4-5ft not the 6-7 feet they appear in the movies. people think pfft well they aren't that big ... but god damn you ever seena casowary attack soemone? .. it aint pretty , now imagine that but with much larger claws and amouth full of sharp teeth isntead of jsut a pecky beak.
In the Jurassic Park book, Velociraptor was small, like the actual dinosaur, about the size of a turkey. Speilberg was the one who pumped up the size so it could hold it's own in the villain department along with T-Rex.
@@jeremiahalguire8231nope Utahraptors were too bulky to be built for speed like a dakotahraptor or velociraptor also I guess dakotahraptor is getting a new name
Great video Michael Crichton ultimately made the decision to use the name velociraptor. I guess from a marketing and branding perspective it worked. Mike from Prehistoric Magazine
Yeah I noticed that the Jurassic Park movies always have a way of making the Raptors iconic but seeing that they were always feathered its needless to say that predatory dinosaurs in reality were more like killer birds than reptiles.
Velociraptor a famous Dinosaur in Mongolia Despite the Jurassic Franchise got all of it like big one Blue and Beta and their former Packs but they had Appearance in other media Like Arcade game Dinosaur King as a Secret Card move as block oppoment as distraction
My Dad recently wrote a book centered on a Velociraptor (Zenu, The Blue Velociraptor) and as a dino nerd I has some hand in the dino research (though he did most of it). It was kinda fun to work on a velociraptor that was more accurate than most media (though there are some inaccuracies obviously because it's about an adolescent velocripator who lives in a civilized Velociraptor society in prehistoric Mongolia so yeah there are some inaccuracies). Of course the book's main focus is the story of courage rather than getting a velociraptor more accurate than Jurassic Park, but it's still funny to me. I'm also surpised he let it have feathers, he HATES birds and feathers with a passion so I'm surprised he kept the feathers (I however love the feathers).
The same thing was going to happen for the giganotosaurus in Jurassic World Dominion and it almost happened, in the concept arts for the giganotosaurus scenes we see an accurate but also scary dinosaur but it's not a giga, it's an acrocanthrosaurus without any crocodile-like skin or concavenator-like hump addition, even some earlier model design sculptures for making the animatronic used those concepts for the basic design and it makes sense, the real reason the giga in the flashback was living with the trex was actually because the giga was supposed to be the acro or even a bigger evolved descendant of the acro but again they would name it giga because it was a cooler name for them.
In Jurassic Park 3 they added proto feathers to the velociraptors to makeup for current understandings of feathered dinosaurs. I believe even Indominus Rex and indoraptor had proto feathers.
I hate it when people compare Velociraptors or any other theropod dinosaurs to chickens, like theropods are equally related to every living species of bird on this planet. velociraptor resembles modern day raptors like eagles and hawks more than a chicken 🙄 like the disrespect is crazy.
When my dad took me to see the original JP in thearters, I whispered to him that the raptors were more like the deinonychus than the velociraptor. He didn't care.
I've never seen anyone bring up the Red Legged Seriema bird when talking about how Raptors may have used their claws. Look up an image of their feet, they have a claw nearly identical to the Raptor. They use it for pinning snakes, eels and fish. Farmers use them in certain areas to protect their chickens.
the funny thing is deinonychus is still too smaller then from what i remember this whole thing. i think the utahraptor was around the correct size of the JP raptor sizes.
Great video as usual and very informative. I had no idea we knew about so many varied species in the area. I thought we had fossil records of only a few species. I always learn a lot from your videos.... thanks.
I am pretty sure I listen to the exact same 3hr White Noise video on RUclips! I made my own playlist that has a bunch of them in a row and starts with a rain sounds video in case I want to fall asleep to that.
I wonder if that sleep aid mask would fit with a nose-only c-pap. My partner has a terrible time sleeping, and really needs to use her c-pap for more productive brain function (enough oxygen when you sleep makes a Huge difference). She uses white noise sometimes, and often covers her face. Honestly, I think her cat is the best sleep aid. - Dynonicus was my very favorite dinosaur since I first read Dinosaur Heresies by Bakker, when I was in middle school (1980's). I was pissed off at Chichton for misnaming the velociraptor, since it was clearly a dynonicus, and anyone who has ever dealt with today's chickens knows that nothing is safe from them.
It's wild that they say the raptors weren't around with t rex. We haven't dug up all the fossils, and creating fossils from dead animals is quite rare. Raptors could have been eaten hole, so no fossils would have been found. More digging is needed, and new evidence could totally change everything we know.
I've always hoped that TRex having feathers of any kind would end up being false because for me the feathers detract from their ferocious mystique. But for some reason, the feathers on the velociraptor make it seem more terrifying.
About the undescribed specimens: the tyrannosaur was probably a tarbosaurus and the sauropod from the museum in Warsaw, Poland (I was there) is either opisthocoelicaudia or nemegtosaurus
The movie adaptation initially wanted to correct the name and properly call it Deinonychus but then decided knowingly to further this confusion in pre-production sigh. It seems to have been corrected in the books in some languages, in my Dutch copy it's called deinonychus leading me to mistakenly believe for a long time the movies just changed the name 'cause it sounded cooler. Sidenote My pet pigeon hates one particular plushy for some reason. When she runs up to it, attacks it and then shoves it off the furniture and watches it plunge to its doom it's not hard to imagine a t-rex or raptor. She'd be a perfect motion capture source lol.
6:49 Velociraptors had a detachable tail they used to beat their prey to death with. They also used it as a fishing rod, and as a fencing foil when challenging other males for breeding rights.
“Because he thought it sounded better and more dramatic” yeah no shit 😂 velociraptor is such a metal sounding name, one of the coolest of all time, regardless of the actual species and how cool it actually is
Jurassic park was a movie, not a documentary. It didn't need the accuracy of which dinosaurs were there in those time periods together. They were all dinosaurs and that is all that mattered.
It’s pretty sad that the Deinonychus in the JP movies are still to this day referred to by the wrong name. Not only because it shadows the credit that the real Velociraptor deserves, but also because Deinonychus is such a cool animal that deserves recognition in its own right. That animal changed how people perceived dinosaurs. It deserves to be recognized without needing to be called by the name of another animal.
congrats and thanks for choosing artistic depictions with acurate theropod wrist representations, and it's weird you didn't mention it, being pronated arms so common and wrong in too much paleoart and movies
The velociraptor may not have lived with the T Rex but it did live with Tarbosaurus Bataar, the second largest Tyrannosaur (at least until the discovery of Tyrannosaurus Mcraensis). Tarbosaurus is a close relative to the T rex that didn't cross that prehistoric bridge between asia and north america back when it was just a Guanlong.
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In the movies, the creatures shown are genetically manufactured, not real dinosaurs. So they didn't "get them wrong" as you (an others keep stating). They got the dinosaurs as close as they could, given the corrupted genetic information they were using, having to bridge gaps in the code using extant animals, such as amphibias and lizards. Also, when those movies first came out, it was not known about feathers, so again, the dinosaurs were as accurate as possible.
Does anyone know where the scenes with the raptors are from? i know i watched all of these movies as a kid, but i cannot remember the name. i appreciate any help pls
While Velociraptor SOUNDS cooler, Deinonychus sounds DEADLIER. Deino was shanked by the movie community and deserves more recognition, alongside Utah Raptor, the bigger and deadlier cousin.
i think we are a bit too fixated with the idea that velociraptors hunted large prey. i really don't think that's the case, i feel like we should compare them more with predators/scavengers like coyotes or small cats like an ocelot for example. there's no proof that they would have hunted in packs, or they had a particularly elaborate social structure. might as well be that the long hooks on their feet where used more for mating season fights and to attack potential threats like roosters do, who knows. they are of course very useful to pin a small animal to the ground too. a prey the size of a rabbit or smaller it's more likely the standard that we should imagine in my opinion, not larger beefy dinosaurs that can fight back and cause serious injuries. it's like a cat trying to take down a hog, not gonna happen lol
I would argue the Spinosaurid's popularity was undeserved and perpetuated by one of Paleontology's biggest embarrassments, Jack Horner and his role in Jurassic Park 3. Hence why people loved it when Spino's skeleton was destroyed by Rexy in Jurassic World as a nod to that particular hatred.
I never did buy into the Velociraptor being a major killer of larger prey. I suspect a single velociraptor would stick to small prey much smaller than itself it would of course gang up on those larger animals but even then I doubt they were much bigger. Animals instinctively know they can’t be injured or they will become unable to feed themselves so intentionally hurling their bodies at animals whose weight was far larger than themselves was a bad survival tactic. It probably only went after bigger animals when it was in a pack and it was desperate for food.
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“Murder Chickens” is now my favorite way of describing the Velociraptors lol. Love it😂❤️
Yeah but whenever I see the chicken part, I think of turning them into stew.
Ha ha! The movies portray them as much bigger than they were, just for effect. 😂
I'm wondering if they had a relation to the later flying dynas?
I think they evolved into geese. (For those of us terrorized by those big white 'domestic' 🤣geese as children. ✊🏼 We survived!).
@@SewingBoxDesigns "Canadian Cobra Chickens" 😂
The colonel's Bane.
Ah yes, the iconic Jurassic Park characters, Ian Grant and Alan Malcolm.
Don't forget John Satler, and Ellie Hammond!
I came here specifically for this comment 😂
Um, you're wrong on names. Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm. If you can't be correct you should stay silent
@@ObroStudioEllen satler, John Hammond. You said it wrong js lol
@@Shanny_The_Randomcould you hear the joke going over your head?
It should be noted that Deinonychus was being referred to by some as "Velociraptor Antirrhopus" around the time Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, which is why he called them Velociraptors in the book.
I believe it was Spielberg who decided to keep the name for the film adaptation because it sounded more dramatic.
Yep. Crichton was correct at the time the book was written, and Spielberg wanted to take even more liberties with Jurassic Park, but was discouraged by Bob Bakker thankfully
@demoths I'm probably in the minority with this take: But I actually like the scientific inaccuracies in the Jurassic films because I feel they help further illustrate one of the franchise's main themes, which is to never mess with the natural order.
InGen didn't bring back the Dinosaurs. By tampering with their genetic code, they went and created things, unnatural abominations, that never existed to begin with. I think the inaccurate Dinosaur designs (among other things) reflect that perfectly.
@@TheHallow31this came up in the first book and possibly the second - Dr. Wu manipulated the animals so much it wasn't appropriate to say these were "real" dinosaurs. He and Hammond argued over color, size, natural aggressiveness vs being calmer for audiences, etc. Either in the second book or second movie, Grant called them genetically engineered monsters. Any inaccuracies by the movie makers on the dinos could be chalked up to this deliberate or accidental genetic tampering.
@@kyachdistent1301 it still exemplifies the genetic engineering angle. Because in the movie, the dinosaurs aren’t brought back with 100% pure code, they’re spliced with multiple other creatures, changing their look
But then ironically in the book, Wu claimed the park's raptors were the 'mongoliensis' species.
When JP first came out I was like “That’s a deinonychus, “Terrible Claw” is a much cooler name.”
Me too! And I was 8 at the time.
i was 13 when JP came out but Deinonychus was my favorite dino going back to when i was 6 and got abook about them. i was upset by the book making the name swap wheni read it at 10 and then the movie upset me further.
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Me too! I was 10 and had already been checking out a book on Deinonychus 8000 times at my school library. 😅
I was 4 when it came out the loud Trex roar bothered me more than the damn Trex
Kind of ironic that Utahraptor, who appeared in JWE 2, is the most accurate raptor depiction throughout Jurassic Park/World media. 😅
Downright the most beautiful raptor from the Jurassic Park franchise
@@regularbricksstudios1109 Agreed. 😎👍
How is it ironic?
@@DrSpooglemon Velociraptor and Deinonychus, both of whom have appeared in various Jurassic Park/World media, have inaccurate designs - where as Utahraptor does, which makes ironic.
no... no it doesn't@@Jestalnaker94000
My favorite dinosaur is the utahraptor and it was Alan Grant’s speech about the 6ft turkeys that made me want to be a paleontologist back when I was in diapers 😂 despite the scientific inaccuracies, Jurassic Park is a movie very near and dear to my heart lol ❤
Same here. I loved dinosaurs growing up. My son loves them too. He was born right around the time JP was released. When he was little, he couldn't understand how dinosaurs weren't alive when he could see them in the movies lol. Then he asked me one day if I had been alive when the dinosaurs were. I said i just missed them by about 65 million years. 😂 We both love dinosaurs movies.
Deinonychus has always been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid. It's a travesty they didn't think "terrible claw" wasn't cool enough of a name. But, as someone else in the comments said. Some paleontologists were calling Deinonychus as "velociraptor anthirhopus". Eitherway, they did Deinonychus dirty lol.
Terrible claw is a very cool name, but most people that watch the movies probably won't know that Deinonychus means terrible claw, nor the exact meaning of Velociraptor. They do know of raptors and velocity, so a name that has connections with those terms is clearly superior for your fast moving vicious killers
@@bartelvandervelden9894I want to troll you. Not going to though.
@@bartelvandervelden9894 in their defense they could have added a line mentioning what it meant, perhaps with our main character explaining to the kid exactly *why* they earned the name of Terrible Claw
The velociraptor was basically a murderous ground hawk with razor-sharp teeth.
So, a secretary bird that needs to go to the dentist once in a while?
But they don't have beaks and they have four claws, not two, so how could they've had feathers like a hawk? That's why the feather theory makes no sense
@@SteezyRedStars They had quill knobs in their bones, which are used for anchoring the organs that grow pennaceous feathers. We've also got fossils of dinosaurs closely related with their feathers preserved.
“Ian grant” is wild
Jurassic Park is actually brilliant. Not only did it spawn an entire new generation of Dino enthusiasts, but it also highlighted how corporate greed can pervert nature. The base nature of Velociraptors was absolutely corrupted, turning them more into monsters than animals, yet over time life, uh, finds a way.
The movie just misnamed it. Should have been called the Utah Raptor, but the name sucks way more is what happened. Happy now?
@@srobeck77Utahraptor was discovered during filming. Jurassic park velociraptors were based on deinonychus as Michael Crichton used an outdated theory that deinonychus was a subspecies of velociraptor.
@@Simon-zs9iy incorrect. the first Utah raptor was discovered in 1975. And point still stands. It was just a naming thing. Now move on with your nerd life to something more meaningful.
@@srobeck77 Bruh it's like you didn't even read my comment before posting your salty af reply lmao
@@bustavonnutz dude your wrong, get over yourself. I already pointed this out and a 5 sec google search can confirm.
10:07... Alan Grant bro. Great video, as always
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I completely missed that slip-up until I read the comments.
I like to imagine them as prehistoric roadrunners ❤
Very good analogy. 👍
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Hunted by Wilytyrannus.
Nowadays it’s become cliche to dismiss Velociraptor as a “wimpy” animal, but it was still surprisingly formidable for its size. As with most other derived dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was well-suited to tackle relatively large prey (often around its own weight, and in some cases larger), though due to its small size “relatively large prey" would have meant things like other small theropods and, in ambitious cases, Protoceratops, rather than anything particularly substantial. Its adaptations for tackling such prey are similar overall to that of other derived dromaeosaurs, such as well-developed ziphont dentition for efficiently cutting through flesh, a relatively large and well-developed sickle claw, and a foot anatomy that sacrificed some speed (though it was still reasonably fast-some formulas used to calculate dinosaur speeds give it a speed of 40kmh) in exchange for improved agility and foot-based grappling capabilities.
Despite the popular scene of Velociraptor and Tarbosaurus showed living together in Prehistoric Planet, Velociraptor actually lived around 75MYA in Mongolia, being known from the Djadochta Formation which is older than the Nemegt Formation where Tarbosaurus lived. Only known dromaeosaurid lived with Tarbosaurus was Adasaurus, a slightly larger close relative of Velociraptor. While nowadays, the formation area is part of the Gobi Desert, and while it wasn’t always a desert, it had been a desert on one previous occasion-when Velociraptor was around. And as with most desert animals alive today, Velociraptor was likely nocturnal, as indicated by sclerotic ring studies.
Meh... If a full grown adult human male came face to face with a single velociraptor they could probably beat the animal to a pulp. Fighting a pack of them that would suck though. Coming face to face with a Utahraptor would be your end.
they are related to eagles after all, known for killing animals many many times larger than themselves. Always loved the prehistoric planet depiction of them, they look like land eagles
@@joshuaortiz2031maybe. But not that easily.
@@stevenbahena5956 if the adult male human is using a tool/weapon like a spear or a heavy stone the velociraptor doesn't stand a chance. That's how humans have hunted their prey since the dawn of time. The raptor would probably run from a human charging it. Where I live in Florida we have black bears and Florida Panthers and they usually run away if you start toward them aggressively. These animals weigh a lot more then what a velociraptor would weigh. I get the feeling those raptors would learn quickly to avoid humans.
@@joshuaortiz2031 you got a point right there
The specimen of the raptor and the protoceratops is goddamn astonishing. The things we are able to find, the things all of Nature and Spirit have allowed to be preserved for other creatures, and for humans to find, never ceases to humble me. Imagine what other glorious and telling treasures will be discovered in our lifetimes 🥰
I hope some evolutionary successor finds my fossilized bones "Mr. Beaning" some fried chicken and it gets used as an example of how Humans ate food.
I like to imagine a velociraptor holding on with the front claws and making jabbing bites while rabbit kicking like a cat. Idk if its accurate, but its fun to imagine a velociraptor rabbit kicking the shit out of its prey
Its always so weird to me that folks still assume velociraptors had to be pack animals because cats are the most popular pets in the world and they're small and quite deadly solitary hunters. Anyway hoping someday for a new movie franchise to pop up that depicts them more accurately just because I think they're plenty cool as is, not every dinosaur has to be something that could easily eat a person lol.
I love how all old therapods have this thing where they were first thought to be a megalosaur
Ikr💀
To be fair, if we're assuming velociraptor reached its max speed only in short bursts, it seems more appropriate to compare their max speed with that of sprinting cyclists. In that case, their max speed is almost exactly the same, the cyclists being faster by just a hair (or maybe a feather)
I remember reading the forward to Raptor red, whilst working on Jurassic park Bob Baker had a call from a colleague who had found the Utah raptor to which Baker commented “you’ve found Spielberg’s raptor!”
My guy bought a Bigfoot costume for a sponsor. Respect.
I now want to open a fast food joined called Speedy Murder Chicken.
Dromeosaurs also probably couldn't rotate their wrists the way we do. Movies usually show their hands palms-down, but they'd be facing each other.
like... italians?
oh nvm i read that wrong
A surprise face reveal was not expected by the way I like your channel and your content
6:30 I wouldn't be surprised if living in a mostly dry environment with large hills and open spaces would have allowed the velociraptor to out pace larger threats by climbing hills and then jumping to semi glide down the other side and land safely on dirt, dust or sand
I wanted to say congrats for bypassing my natural ad block (autism) by having a simple but effective commercial
Well done
...and the reason i finally got chickens for pets. Always wanted a pet dinosaur
Dakotoraptor and utahraptor are my favourite
10:08 “Ian grant” 😭😭😭
17:54 “Tyrannosaurus did not live at the same time as the velociraptor…… just kidding I lied” -Extinct Zoo
1:17 he’s talking about T. Rex, as opposed to another tyrannosaur
Also the fact jurrasic park sparked the idea of dilophosaurus having a frill(it never did and now dilophosaurus has a frill in almost any media it’s in)
Because of the hook claw I highly doubt that raptors lived and hunted on ground level. such claw has very little advantages over more powerful jaws and front limbs, as the attack power doesn't come from the size of the claw but the muscles behind it, meanwhile they come with the high risk of tangling into all vegetation and roots (the open hook claw acts like anchor hanging off from the boat, tangling into everything that crosses its way), risking injury and getting caught by larger predators. why would evolution then favor it over stronger jaws and front limbs? my theory is that raptors were tree climbers and used the hook claw for climbing and grabbing on tree trunks while waiting for unsuspecting prey to pass under the tree. their hunting method was diving onto the prey from the tree, gaining massive attack power from the speed of the dive to weaponize the overly size claw. as more precise dive meant more prey, this would have naturally put pressure on the evolution of flying feathers, as the raptors (or their common ancestor with birds) would have learned to control the dive, eventually leading into the evolution of powered flight. it's also notable that the hook claw wasn't serrated meaning it's very well suited for climbing but not optimized as a weapon.
ps. owls are among the most primitive birds alive today, and they still use this exact hunting strategy.
they lived in the desert tho, so probably not enough trees to climb and not enough vegetation to be a nuisance
my theory is that they could have used it to latch on the prey like big felines do with their dew claw. Although the theory in the video seems to have more evidence
@@thelionoob I doubt the estimations of weather conditions from 70 million years are that accurate we can say for certain what type the terrain was. it's a thin layer of soil and minuscule amount of fossils after all the entire estimation is based on. certainly it's not so accurate we could say that there were no trees present that day, suppose it was above the water.
and any vegetation is anyways where the animal hides and stalks the prey in, so it will be inevitably a nuisance, even if the terrain would be mostly open.
but if my theory is wrong, then it's really just big mystery why they had such out of proportion claw, as they do come with very big disadvantages and very little obvious advantages. latching onto the prey animal doesn't require such overly big claw it risks the animals survival, and puncturing vital organs comes with the problem of power; the bigger the claw the more power it requires to penetrate the thick skin of the prey. if the prey animals were smaller however, then the need for big claw would also lose its importance, which should again put the weight on the disadvantages of such claw.
Wasn't there a recent theory where they proposed the claw was used for raptors to use "raptor prey restrant" where the claws anchor them to prey they have toppled over so they can eat small peices of the prey at a time until the prey dies. I'm pretty sure that's the leading theory of their claw atm. Look it up. it's pretty interesting.
@@chantelstenner2553 either way you still wouldnt want to run into a pack of Velociraptors or deinonychus'es regardles of teh fact thart vel's are only 1 foot tall and deins are typcially 4-5ft not the 6-7 feet they appear in the movies.
people think pfft well they aren't that big ... but god damn you ever seena casowary attack soemone? .. it aint pretty , now imagine that but with much larger claws and amouth full of sharp teeth isntead of jsut a pecky beak.
@@DenverStarkeyThere is zero paleontological evidence that velociraptors hunted in packs.
Hey Captain Kirk, what's your favorite cretaceous period dinosaur from the east asian region?
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN"
3:24 Face reveal ? 12:43 easter egg ?
17:27 Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!
In the Jurassic Park book, Velociraptor was small, like the actual dinosaur, about the size of a turkey. Speilberg was the one who pumped up the size so it could hold it's own in the villain department along with T-Rex.
Dakotaraptor is like wolf 🐺 and utahraptor is like a tiger 🐯 one build for speed and other is build for strength ❤
Yet all members of the dromeosaurid family were built for speed. Some just got pretty big as well.
And velo is fox or coyote?
@@jeremiahalguire8231nope Utahraptors were too bulky to be built for speed like a dakotahraptor or velociraptor also I guess dakotahraptor is getting a new name
@@TrainLizard your are right brother
@@TrainLizard I am agreeing with you brother ☺️😊😇
Don't forget giant snakes. Movies make them lightning fast, constantly hungry and aggressive, and give them ROARS.
This animal is One of my favorites dinosaurs
Great video Michael Crichton ultimately made the decision to use the name velociraptor. I guess from a marketing and branding perspective it worked. Mike from Prehistoric Magazine
Yeah I noticed that the Jurassic Park movies always have a way of making the Raptors iconic but seeing that they were always feathered its needless to say that predatory dinosaurs in reality were more like killer birds than reptiles.
Velociraptor a famous Dinosaur in Mongolia Despite the Jurassic Franchise got all of it like big one Blue and Beta and their former Packs but they had Appearance in other media
Like Arcade game Dinosaur King as a Secret Card move as block oppoment as distraction
Always love saying your videos on a Saturday morning
My Dad recently wrote a book centered on a Velociraptor (Zenu, The Blue Velociraptor) and as a dino nerd I has some hand in the dino research (though he did most of it). It was kinda fun to work on a velociraptor that was more accurate than most media (though there are some inaccuracies obviously because it's about an adolescent velocripator who lives in a civilized Velociraptor society in prehistoric Mongolia so yeah there are some inaccuracies). Of course the book's main focus is the story of courage rather than getting a velociraptor more accurate than Jurassic Park, but it's still funny to me. I'm also surpised he let it have feathers, he HATES birds and feathers with a passion so I'm surprised he kept the feathers (I however love the feathers).
That sounds like a pretty good book. I'll have to check it out.
Velociraptor was like a group eagle, small but powerful.
velociraptors might have been like jackals: teaming up for large prey but always fighting!
The same thing was going to happen for the giganotosaurus in Jurassic World Dominion and it almost happened, in the concept arts for the giganotosaurus scenes we see an accurate but also scary dinosaur but it's not a giga, it's an acrocanthrosaurus without any crocodile-like skin or concavenator-like hump addition, even some earlier model design sculptures for making the animatronic used those concepts for the basic design and it makes sense, the real reason the giga in the flashback was living with the trex was actually because the giga was supposed to be the acro or even a bigger evolved descendant of the acro but again they would name it giga because it was a cooler name for them.
In Jurassic Park 3 they added proto feathers to the velociraptors to makeup for current understandings of feathered dinosaurs. I believe even Indominus Rex and indoraptor had proto feathers.
And yet my favourite raptor is the Bambiraptor
In defense of JP on the feathers, we hadn't found the evidence that they were feathered until the third movie.
Great video, it captured my attention the whole time which I can’t say for a lot of videos. Good job making an engaging and interesting video.
I hate it when people compare Velociraptors or any other theropod dinosaurs to chickens, like theropods are equally related to every living species of bird on this planet. velociraptor resembles modern day raptors like eagles and hawks more than a chicken 🙄 like the disrespect is crazy.
Same here. I find it funny how people try and use chickens to denigrate feathered dinosaurs, as if they're the only bird in the world.
You haven't met my rooster, Caesar. Massive 3 inch+ spurs and aggressive.
When my dad took me to see the original JP in thearters, I whispered to him that the raptors were more like the deinonychus than the velociraptor. He didn't care.
Well being in cockfighting pits, I can truly see raptors fighting as fighting roosters.🐓🦖
How this dude decorates his room:
-bed
-simple calendar
-plain chair
-computer
How dude dresses:
-Plain shirt
-plain jeans
-plain shoes
I've never seen anyone bring up the Red Legged Seriema bird when talking about how Raptors may have used their claws. Look up an image of their feet, they have a claw nearly identical to the Raptor. They use it for pinning snakes, eels and fish. Farmers use them in certain areas to protect their chickens.
Clever clever chicken.😮
the funny thing is deinonychus is still too smaller then from what i remember this whole thing. i think the utahraptor was around the correct size of the JP raptor sizes.
Great video as usual and very informative. I had no idea we knew about so many varied species in the area. I thought we had fossil records of only a few species. I always learn a lot from your videos.... thanks.
This was a good watch, thanks!
I love the nieghboring critters parts of these videos. The whole video is badass but I love that part in particular
it's cool to finnaly see you irl and the video is very good
12:48 Dinosaur under the tree lol, Great vid bro!
I am pretty sure I listen to the exact same 3hr White Noise video on RUclips! I made my own playlist that has a bunch of them in a row and starts with a rain sounds video in case I want to fall asleep to that.
12:46 easter egg under tree
Sharp eyes.
I wonder if that sleep aid mask would fit with a nose-only c-pap. My partner has a terrible time sleeping, and really needs to use her c-pap for more productive brain function (enough oxygen when you sleep makes a Huge difference). She uses white noise sometimes, and often covers her face. Honestly, I think her cat is the best sleep aid.
- Dynonicus was my very favorite dinosaur since I first read Dinosaur Heresies by Bakker, when I was in middle school (1980's). I was pissed off at Chichton for misnaming the velociraptor, since it was clearly a dynonicus, and anyone who has ever dealt with today's chickens knows that nothing is safe from them.
holly molly! we usually listen about Utahrapto and Dakotaraptor but THAT Bissekty Giant is an absolute beast!
It's wild that they say the raptors weren't around with t rex. We haven't dug up all the fossils, and creating fossils from dead animals is quite rare. Raptors could have been eaten hole, so no fossils would have been found. More digging is needed, and new evidence could totally change everything we know.
I've always hoped that TRex having feathers of any kind would end up being false because for me the feathers detract from their ferocious mystique. But for some reason, the feathers on the velociraptor make it seem more terrifying.
I did catch that Easter egg at 12:44
I was like wait tf is that 🤣
About the undescribed specimens: the tyrannosaur was probably a tarbosaurus and the sauropod from the museum in Warsaw, Poland (I was there) is either opisthocoelicaudia or nemegtosaurus
The movie adaptation initially wanted to correct the name and properly call it Deinonychus but then decided knowingly to further this confusion in pre-production sigh.
It seems to have been corrected in the books in some languages, in my Dutch copy it's called deinonychus leading me to mistakenly believe for a long time the movies just changed the name 'cause it sounded cooler.
Sidenote
My pet pigeon hates one particular plushy for some reason. When she runs up to it, attacks it and then shoves it off the furniture and watches it plunge to its doom it's not hard to imagine a t-rex or raptor.
She'd be a perfect motion capture source lol.
i grew up with Jurassic Park during the 2000's and it's still my favorite Velociraptor from this Day
Wait that’s how you look ExtinctZoo? I did not expect that
Is that really how we say Deinoychus now? I learned to say it from We sing Dinosures and they say it different.
Idk, I've always pronounced it dine-on-a-kiss
@@thegreivousone2444 Dine-on-a-kyss (sorry I don't really know know ho this)
6:49 Velociraptors had a detachable tail they used to beat their prey to death with. They also used it as a fishing rod, and as a fencing foil when challenging other males for breeding rights.
Fabulous video.... you reel of those names like they were nothing!!
Claw hitting vital organs, possible nocturnal predator, and insanely swift.... I knew it. Velociraptors were ninjas!
Im sorry, I got stuck with the "KRYPTObaatar" 😂😂 Imagine raptors using that as currency .
“Because he thought it sounded better and more dramatic” yeah no shit 😂 velociraptor is such a metal sounding name, one of the coolest of all time, regardless of the actual species and how cool it actually is
Very educational, thanks for the video!
Better put some respect on Alan Grant's name
Why do dangerous animals always have to be so cute 😔
Jurassic park was a movie, not a documentary. It didn't need the accuracy of which dinosaurs were there in those time periods together. They were all dinosaurs and that is all that mattered.
It’s pretty sad that the Deinonychus in the JP movies are still to this day referred to by the wrong name. Not only because it shadows the credit that the real Velociraptor deserves, but also because Deinonychus is such a cool animal that deserves recognition in its own right.
That animal changed how people perceived dinosaurs. It deserves to be recognized without needing to be called by the name of another animal.
congrats and thanks for choosing artistic depictions with acurate theropod wrist representations, and it's weird you didn't mention it, being pronated arms so common and wrong in too much paleoart and movies
The velociraptor may not have lived with the T Rex but it did live with Tarbosaurus Bataar, the second largest Tyrannosaur (at least until the discovery of Tyrannosaurus Mcraensis). Tarbosaurus is a close relative to the T rex that didn't cross that prehistoric bridge between asia and north america back when it was just a Guanlong.
Dinosaurs are so rad. It would be dope if we could someday really know how many there were and what they're like.
Considering which came first, it's not the claws that are sickle-shaped. It's the sickles that are claw-shaped...
have you done a video on utahraptor, if not i would love to see one because the my favorite dinosuar.
12:44 Like the mini dino cartoon under the tree LOL
2:37 the velociraptor does look like a giant chicken indeed 😂 at least in the images shown.
The kid from the movie was right all along XD
... NEVER EVER Dis Chickens ! ... They are good people, good citizens, and they pay their taxes ! ... The ALSO carry stilettos and are well trained in the Master Arts shortly after they leave the egg. These are little-known facts and you would do well to keep them in mind !
In the movies, the creatures shown are genetically manufactured, not real dinosaurs. So they didn't "get them wrong" as you (an others keep stating). They got the dinosaurs as close as they could, given the corrupted genetic information they were using, having to bridge gaps in the code using extant animals, such as amphibias and lizards. Also, when those movies first came out, it was not known about feathers, so again, the dinosaurs were as accurate as possible.
what was that tiny green thing at 12:44, it's driving me crazy!!!
Looks like a tiny cartoon dinosaur to me.
Does anyone know where the scenes with the raptors are from? i know i watched all of these movies as a kid, but i cannot remember the name. i appreciate any help pls
(i do not mean jurassic park)
One of the documentaries is called "Dinosaur Planet" and the episode in which the velociraptors appear is titled "White Tip's Journey"
While Velociraptor SOUNDS cooler, Deinonychus sounds DEADLIER. Deino was shanked by the movie community and deserves more recognition, alongside Utah Raptor, the bigger and deadlier cousin.
i think we are a bit too fixated with the idea that velociraptors hunted large prey. i really don't think that's the case, i feel like we should compare them more with predators/scavengers like coyotes or small cats like an ocelot for example. there's no proof that they would have hunted in packs, or they had a particularly elaborate social structure. might as well be that the long hooks on their feet where used more for mating season fights and to attack potential threats like roosters do, who knows. they are of course very useful to pin a small animal to the ground too. a prey the size of a rabbit or smaller it's more likely the standard that we should imagine in my opinion, not larger beefy dinosaurs that can fight back and cause serious injuries. it's like a cat trying to take down a hog, not gonna happen lol
I would argue the Spinosaurid's popularity was undeserved and perpetuated by one of Paleontology's biggest embarrassments, Jack Horner and his role in Jurassic Park 3. Hence why people loved it when Spino's skeleton was destroyed by Rexy in Jurassic World as a nod to that particular hatred.
I never did buy into the Velociraptor being a major killer of larger prey. I suspect a single velociraptor would stick to small prey much smaller than itself it would of course gang up on those larger animals but even then I doubt they were much bigger. Animals instinctively know they can’t be injured or they will become unable to feed themselves so intentionally hurling their bodies at animals whose weight was far larger than themselves was a bad survival tactic. It probably only went after bigger animals when it was in a pack and it was desperate for food.