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Velosiraptor
"Speedy Thief"
| Was a fast running, 2 legged (bipedal) meat eating dinosaur with 80 very sharp, curved teeth, some being over an inch long, in a long flat snout, an S shaped neck, arms with 3 fingered clawed hands, long thin legs, 4 clawed feet and a stiff tail that worked as a counterbalance in order to make very quick turns. It probably could run about 40 mph for short burst. Its brain was relatively large in comparison to it body and, as result, was one of the most intelligent dinosaurs. Velociraptor lived in the late Cretaceous Period 85 to 80 million years ago |