Velociraptor and Huge New Pterosaur from the Gobi Desert

Velociraptor and Huge Pterosaur from Gobi Desert

Velociraptor is quute well known, probably because it was front and center in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies.  The animators and model builders and puppet builders did a great job in making their Velociraptor seem real.  However... there is quite a bit of evidence suggesting that Velociraptor was more of a feathered dinosaur and looked more like a 6 foot long roadrunner bird.  The larger Velociraptor in Jurassic Park movies and the Jurassic World movies was the size of a Utahraptor.  So raptors DID get big.  There were even some larger than that.  Also, these raptors lived in the Cretaceous Period... AFTER the Jurassic Period ended.  

A new discovery from the Gobi Desert... where Velociraptor lived... was the a new gigantic Pterosaur or flying reptile.  These animals did not have feathers, but it is thought that they did have a type of fuzzy covering on their bodies.  The new Pterosaur. . . not yet named . . . had a wingspan of around 36 feet or 11 meters.  They stood around 18 feet or 5.5 meters tall.  That is as tall as a large bull giraffe gets.  Both these animals lived around 70 million years ago in what is now the Gobi Desert and it was a desert back then too.  This huge Pterosaur was bigger than the great majority of dinos living in the area so it very likely preyed on dinosaus. . . or maybe it preyed on their babies and eggs.  

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