Dinosaur

Veloci­raptor

Feathers, a big claw and much smaller than in the films.

Say it: vel-OSS-ee-rap-tor

Name means
Quick plunderer
What it was
A small meat-eating dinosaur
Size
About 1.8 metres long and about 7 kilograms, roughly the size of a turkey
Ate
Small mammals and reptiles
Lived
Late Cretaceous, 74 to 70 million years ago
Fossils found
Mongolia
Velociraptor as drawn in Dinolets

Facts for little ones

  • It had feathers. Bumps on its arm bones show where long feathers grew.
  • It was only about the size of a turkey. The ones in the films were made about twice as big.
  • It had a big curved claw on each foot.

Velociraptor in Dinolets

Velociraptor is egg number 6 of 12. In the game it's purple, and its special feature is the one the voice calls out: "A big claw!" The voice says its name as "veh-LOSS-ih-rap-tor".

In Feed it eats meat, and from level 2 your child is asked to pick the right food for it. Once it has hatched, it joins in the other games too.

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