http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-20-voa62.cfm
Oh man, an overgrown chicken with nasty teeth?
"Clever girl." XD
At least Dr. Grant was right though, they were really related to birds.
Scientists say they have evidence that a ferocious dinosaur made famous by the movie Jurassic Park definitely had feathers. Experts say the dinosaur, called Velociraptor, had a wing structure just like modern birds. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.
A new study by American researcher Alan Turner and his colleagues provides the first conclusive evidence that Velociraptor, a sprinting, vicious dinosaur that lived some 80 million years ago, had feathers.
The Velociraptor in the current study is estimated to have been one meter tall, 1.5 meters long and weighed just over 13 kilograms.
Turner, a graduate student at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and lead author of the study, says Velociraptor appears to have been a smaller creature than in Jurassic Park, but just as nasty.
"It's sort of as if you scaled up a chicken and then gave it really nasty teeth and big claws on its feet," he said.
Oh man, an overgrown chicken with nasty teeth?
"Clever girl." XD
At least Dr. Grant was right though, they were really related to birds.