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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1041160" data-attributes="member: 10201">Speak for yourself.  I'll take "Deinonychus" any day.  Especially given their respective etymologies.Ok, this is me with egg on my face.  I shoulda remembered that the bird-like (in stance) dinosaurs were lizard-hipped.  I didn't bother to grab a book before my last post.  On the discovery dates, i was going on childhood memories: Deinonychus was in every dino book i ever saw, but i'd never heard of Velociraptor before Jurassic Park. Somebody said it was the new, hot thing when Crichton wrote his book (and that's part of why he used them), and it didn't even occur to me to double-check--i'd never heard of them, so of *course* it was because they were a (relatively) new discovery.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Interestingly, a cursory websearch puts the earliest Velociraptor skull at 1924, and the first Deinonychus find in the '60s.  However, where size is concerned, i stick to my guns.  Checked a couple of books, as well as online, and they all concur: Deinonychus was significantly larger than Velociraptor.  Maybe not quite "pony sized", but i couldn't think of a better comparison.  I suppose "goat-sized" is pretty close, at least for size (probably rather lighter than a goat--what's a goat weigh?).  I also overstated the size of Velociraptor.From <<a href="http://www.mathematical.com/dinovelociraptor.html" target="_blank">http://www.mathematical.com/dinovelociraptor.html</a>>:From <<a href="http://www.nationaldinosaurmuseum.com.au/dinoinfo/dinos/velociraptor.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nationaldinosaurmuseum.com.au/dinoinfo/dinos/velociraptor.htm</a>>:As long as we're nitpicking: is the opening scene of Jurassic Park in the American SW (as i thought i remembered), where Deinonychus is found, or Mongolia (where Velociraptor is found)?</blockquote>

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