The Velociraptor is probably the most well known genus among the small sized dinosaurs. It neve exceed two meters in length. Tail and skull were peculiar: tail because of its inflexibility due by bony rods growing out from the vertebrae, skull because it was long and flat-snouted in comparison with the other dromaeosaurs. A famous find in 1971 in Mongolia shows a Velociraptor skeleton toghether with a Protoceratops, in a combact posture frozen by death. Velociraptor is mostly known by fragmentary specimens, and complete skeletons are extremely rare.

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