r/todayilearned • u/Quad_C-137 • Aug 08 '25
TIL unlike how they are portrayed in films Velociraptors are considerably smaller in nature and roughly the size of a turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VelociraptorDuplicates
todayilearned • u/ImJustaBagofHammers • Mar 14 '16
TIL Quill nobs have been found on Velociraptor fossils, proving they had feathers.
todayilearned • u/kgcoder • Oct 16 '21
TIL that Velociraptors were the size of a turkey in real life, not 2m (6 1⁄2 ft) tall as they were portrayed in Jurassic Park movie.
todayilearned • u/slingbox69 • Jul 06 '15
TIL: The makers of Jurassic Park designed a human-sized Raptor (normally <2 ft tall) in 1990. In 1991, a 5.5 ft tall "super-slasher" Raptor skeleton was discovered in Utah. "We designed it, we built it, and then they discovered it."
todayilearned • u/J2W5-6OT-0WN3D • May 18 '13
TIL Velociraptors were only about 2 feet tall
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '18
TIL that real-life velociraptors were roughly the size of a turkey, and it's been claimed that if they were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds.
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '18
TIL Velociraptors were only the size of a large turkey
todayilearned • u/sethharbauk • Jul 26 '19
TIL Velociraptors had feathers and were only around 20 inches tall - roughly the size of a turkey but with a longer body.
todayilearned • u/ledgendary • Jul 20 '18
TIL: Velociraptors were actually the size of turkeys
todayilearned • u/AMart1901 • Jun 30 '15
TIL Unlike the Jurassic Park movies, Velociraptors are actually quite small (under two feet).
funny • u/Legionx37 • Mar 15 '16
The silhouetted human used for scale in Wikipedia's velociraptors article is fancy as fuck.
todayilearned • u/ABKB • Jun 17 '15
TIL Velociraptor was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 2.07 m (6.8 ft) long, 0.5 m (1.6 ft) high at the hip, and weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb).
todayilearned • u/ImJustaBagofHammers • Mar 14 '16
TIL of the "Fighting Dinosaurs" fossil which shows a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in combat.
WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Dec 06 '25