Vespersaurus
Vespersaurus was a small raptor type of dinosaur with a unique feature. Other raptors with a killer toe claw walked on two toes and kept one toe in the air to keep the killer claw sharp. Vespersaurus walked on ONE toe and kept TWO toes with killer claws off the ground. They even found footprints in the same rock formation that showed this. They found the footprints BEFORE they found the fossilized bones. This was the Rio Parana' formation in Brazil.
This killer dinosaur could slash prey with FOUR claws. It was about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long. It was about 2.6 feet (0.8 meters) tall. It lived in a desert area in what is now Brazil. It may have been covered in scales or perhaps feathers. So I drew it both ways. With the find of feathered dinosaurs in China several years ago, the current theories support the idea that most if not all Raptor dinosaurs had feathers. Some paleontologists even think the larger Theropods like T. rex also had feathers. We just have yet to find feather impressions around T. rex bones.
Vespersaurus with Feathers
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