http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051017/nicedino.html
But this is interesting.
That is pretty interesting. I never really thought of the velociraptor as that scary of a dinosaur anyways. they’re kind of small, and there’s bigger raptors out there… like Deinonechus(sp?) and the Utah raptor. Now those guys are raptors!!! Ok maybe raptors are birds of prey, but you know what I mean.
It is. I wish I still had the Discovery Channel. There’s nothing to watch here but Norsk rikskringkasting now. I miss Mythbusters and Time Team. *Grumble.
Dinonychus is still my favourite dinosaur. They seem way more menacing than Velociraptors, plus they were pack beasts.
I think all of the dromaeosaurs(I guess that’s the proper definition of that group of dinosaurs) were pack animals. I think velociraptors especially, since they were smaller, one would have to assume that they were pack animals. Think of animals like coyotes. I guess wolves could be thrown in there too. But yeah, you’re right, Dinonychus’ are way cooler!!! Not my favourite dinosaur, but it’s up there.
Yeah, I’ve seen that, it’s pretty cool.
But it’s really drawn out too. 
Oh ok, so instead of disemboweling its prey it hooks itself into your flesh with its claws and then beings tearing you up with its “razor sharp teeth”. Nope, NOT VICIOUS AT ALL!
I remember my biggest velociraptor dissapointment was when I was a kid and had this poster on my wall with a bunch of dinos on it. They were divided into seperate categories and I found the raptor was a lot smaller and less “rough edged” than the movie raptors.
Edit: This article says that the movie raptors were portrayed as disemboweling people, but I think every single raptor kill in the Jurassic Park series was done exactly as this article describes. Even the scene where the raptors fight the T-Rex were done with a claw hook + bite.
Yeah, but Dr. Grant first describes the way raptors kill you is by disembowling you.
And then he is proven wrong, as Raptors are smart enough to not waste time sneaking up on people and disembowing them when charging and slashing away indiscriminately with claws and teeth will do.
I hated how some of the dinosaurs were portrayed in Jurassic Park. Still do. Not only did the fuck up on the size of the velicoraptors (they could of atleast had the decency to call them Dinonychus’ instead, which would of made it more correct), but they also fucked up the Dilophosaurus.
In the movie, they showed them as being small, at about 3 or 4 feet in height, and about 6 feet in length. That’s bullshit. I went to the royal tyrell museum in Drumheller, Alberta, and I saw a complete(well mostly complete) fossil of a Dilophosaurus. That thing was 9 feet tall and 20 feet long!!! atleast! Sure, you could use the excuse that it was a young one or something, but fuck that… they should of gone all out.
Not to mention the whole idea of the movie was ridiculous in the first place, but it was entertaining for the most part.
I h
ated how some of the dinosaurs were portrayed in Jurassic Park. Still do. Not only did the fuck up on the size of the velicoraptors (they could of atleast had the decency to call them Dinonychus’ instead, which would of made it more correct), but they also fucked up the Dilophosaurus.
I dunno, I find yelling out Dinonychus to be a lot harder and take longer to say than just saying raptors. By the time I say “Oh no, the Dinonychus have escaped,” I’d be eaten.
Then again, why bother saying anything when you’re about to be eaten…
What the hell are you talking about? Dinonychus is one syllable less than Velociraptor. :hint:
*edit: ok I see you said raptors instead of velociraptors. My point, however, still stands.
I said raptor, not velociraptor.
How the hell do you even pronounce Dionychus? O_o
<i>deinonychus</i> die-non-eh-cuss
Weird, is that the official way? I always pronounced it “dee-no-nee-chus”.
Sorry, it turns out it was die-non-eh-cuss.
You probably pronounce it “dee” because you’re missing an “i” in the spelling of the word there 
If you tried to construct a nickname for Dinonychus, you’d end up with something nasal and effeminate-sounding (“nonnies”?) or worse.
I thought tigers used their hind feet to rip their prey. I don’t suppose that exception would be important for the analogy, even if I am right.
I’d like to know how they engineered the claw, personally. They’d obviously have to estimate how strong it would be, and considering the scale of Velociraptor the gator skin might have been too hard/thick; how do we know they’d attack something that big anyway?
I’m hoping they were careful; often <i>Mythbusters</i> gets emails from people because they “weren’t thorough enough,” and I remember some controversy about a special on the Battle of Agincourt by <i>Battlefield Detectives</i> which concluded that the English longbowmen with their bodkin point arrows would have been inneffective against the French knights and men-at-arms. I remember in particular that their armor penetration tests consisted of firing an arrow tipped with an iron bodkin point against a steel plate. These were criticised for not accounting for inconsistencies in steel at the time and for not trying it with a steel arrowhead.
I think the <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt”>Wikipedia article</a> has something to say about it.
Still, it’s thought-provoking, which is good.
The gator skin WAS too think.
And yeah, they showed how it was estimated and all that.
But pig skin was perfect.
I mean inappropriately thick. Like the head on that beer.