DEINONYCHUS: THE REAL DINOSAUR BEHIND JURASSIC PARK'S RAPTORS

Deinonychus antirrhopusIf you met Deinonychus in the Early Cretaceous, your first thought might be, “What a splendid bird.” Your second thought, if you were a small animal, would probably be, “Oh dear.”Deinonychus antirrhopus was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now North America roughly 115 to 108 million years ago. Its name means “terrible claw”, which is