A Velociraptor And Its Prey Were Fossilized Mid

Outside of the paleontological community, velociraptors are poorly understood, owing to mistakes in the Jurassic Park franchise. No, velociraptors were not six-foot-tall, hyper-intelligent killing robots. The velociraptor was really smaller than a turkey and more of a scavenger than a predator. That doesn't imply that some raptors weren't predators in the wild.

One fossil depicts a raptor feasting on a Protoceratops, but the struggle was closer than you might think. The raptor had wounded the Protoceratops with its gigantic toe claw, but the Protoceratops used its formidable beak to bite and shatter the raptor's arm. The two possibly passed together owing to the abrupt fall of a sand dune.