Riesiger Velociraptor, größer als Jurassic Park-Vorstellungen, in Südkorea entdeckt

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/26/giant-velociraptor-jurassic-park-dinosaur-south-korea/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    When Jurassic Park introduced the world to the 6ft velociraptor, disdainful palaeontologists were quick to point out that [the dinosaurs were actually about the size of turkeys](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs/11743709/Jurassic-World-was-wrong-velociraptors-looked-like-this.html).

    Now a giant raptor even bigger than Michael Crichton’s imaginings has been discovered in South Korea, and it would have dwarfed both its real and fictional counterparts.

    With a hip height of five foot nine inches, Fujianipus yingliangi would have towered over a 6ft tall human, while its 16ft length is almost three times as big as a usual velociraptor – about the length of the Jeep Wranglers used in [Jurassic Park](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/09/tyrannosaur-gorgosaurus-fossil-darla-zelenitsky-canada/).

    Dr Anthony Romilio, a palaeontologist from the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, said: “Imagine something like that coming at you at full speed.

    “When people think of [raptor dinosaurs](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dinosaurs/), they most likely think of those in the Jurassic Park movies – human-sized, muscly, aggressive hunters.

    “This raptor was around 5-metres-long with 1.8 metre-long legs, far exceeding the size of the raptors depicted in Jurassic Park.”

    **Read more:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/26/giant-velociraptor-jurassic-park-dinosaur-south-korea/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/26/giant-velociraptor-jurassic-park-dinosaur-south-korea/)

  2. >“Bones discovered in Alaska hint at a trend toward gigantism near the ancient Arctic Circle, an area with potentially less species competition due to extended periods of winter darkness.

    OK, new nightmare material. Imagine being tracked by voracious, giant-sized velociraptors in a semi-tropical Arctic Circle during 30 days of night.

  4. Velociraptor? That’s more like…velotsaraptor

  5. How amazing is science that we are still finding this stuff? Incredible

  7. I wonder how long it’ll take for us to figure out if this is a new dinosaur or a younger version of known dinosaur.

  8. “Giant velociraptor bigger than Jurassic Park imaginings discovered in South Korea” Sounds like they figured out why SK’s population has been decreasing.

  10. These new artistic depictions with feathers goes so fucking hard. Shit looks so metal

  11. Brrr, imagine a winter with gigantosaurs instead of polar bears! Science surely is a wild ride, eh?

  12. Wait till additional bones are discovered showing it to actually be cassowaries

  13. > With a hip height of five foot nine inches

    Interesting, so you are saying if he farts it would be on the same height as my face.

  15. I’m so fucking tired of nature poking holes in Jurassic Park.

  16. This article desperately needs an informed editor.

    “Giant velociraptor – even larger and smarter than beefed-up Jurassic Park dinosaurs – once roamed South Korea”

    There is no way to know this. *Fujianipus yingliangi* is an ichnotaxon- the name describes the shape of a footprint. No skeletal material is known of the animal that made the track, which the article itself points out*, but then makes an unsubstantiated claim about intelligence.

    *Albeit with the misleading phrasing “no fossils belonging to the species have been found…” which is incorrect. Trace fossils are fossils, and the trace fossil species *Fujianipus yingliangi* is founded on the track depicted in this very article.

    The name *Velociraptor* is presented in this article uncapitalized and unitalicized which implies a generic group name akin to what the word “raptor” means to the general public. To call something “a velociraptor” implies either: an individual of *Velociraptor*, which this is not; a member of the sub-family Velociraptorinae, which this is not; or, a member of the broader “raptor” group Dromaeosauridae, which this also is not. The research paper defines *Fujianipus* as a troodontid, which is a sister group to Dromaeosauridae and decidedly not a “velociraptor family”.

  17. Just to be clear, Velociraptor is only a single species of an entire large family of similar small feathery carnivore dinos with giant toenails.

  19. The title annoys me; “velociraptor” is a specific species of dromaeosaur. I get the idea of using velociraptor as a reference, it’s well-known, but at least specify that it’s a relative of velociraptor instead of a type of one.

  20. Velociraptor are small! You can’t just give another species their name!

    What the heck!? That’s like grade school trivia knowledge!

  22. This article forgets Utah raptors exist, and other dromeosaurs

  23. Looking at the picture I would have thought it was rocks.

  24. There already have been raptors discovered that were larger than the Jurassic Park versions. Utahraptor has been known for a long time.

    Velociraptor was picked because the name sounded cool. That’s it.

  25. Why did they picutre a bird? Dinsoaurs had no feathers

  27. Still can’t get over that Dinosaurs actually just looked like giant birds

  29. Eating all that kimchi and gochujang must’ve made it taller!

  30. Velocirapter? Based on the picture provided in the article they certainly seem more like 6 ft turkeys.

  31. Since when is jurassic park some scientific benchmark. Shit like this is why you can’t take news seriously

  32. And yet the Jurassic Park raptors looked far more menacing than these birds. All I can think of is how big that drumstick is.

  33. I eat gator it tastes great to me. W/Hot sauce of course

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