VELOCIRAPTOR VERSUS MAMMAL

The thrilling scene you see playing out before you is a velociraptor about to make a meal out of a little brown rodent. Run, little ancestor!

Velociraptors were smallish dinosaurs around 2 meters or 6 feet in length. Even so, this 45-kilogram or 100-pound carnivore was an impressive hunter.

They ran on two very speedy back legs to catch and dine on reptiles, amphibians, insects, small dinosaurs and mammals. 

Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur. These adorable wee killers lived 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. Velociraptors had large brains relative to their body size. They were likely not Einstein-level smart, but certainly smart enough to know you were likely hiding behind that rock. The Theory of Relativity had quite a different connotation in the Cretaceous. The charming artistic rendering you see here is by the very talented Daniel Eskridge.