Factoid of the Week, Exhibit Spotlight: Deinonychus antirrhopus
Factoid of the Week
February 18 Exhibit Spotlight: Deinonychus antirrhopus After Jurassic Park catapulted Velociraptor into pop stardom, many among the general public tend to conflate all small meat-eating dinosaurs with the raptor group (technically they’re known as the maniraptors, which means “grabby hands”). To continue our survey of the small carnivorous theropods of the park, let’s check out Deinonychus. Up until the discovery of Utahraptor in 1993, Deinonychus weighed