What does the Fighting Dinosaurs fossil show?

Velociraptor locked in combat with Protoceratops

Velociraptor Quiz: Can You Get 8 Out of 10?

The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and covered in feathers, far from its movie image, and this velociraptor quiz sets the record straight. Visit the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, where the famous Fighting Dinosaurs fossil was found, and learn what Jurassic Park changed.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Size
About how big was a real Velociraptor?
Feathers
What evidence shows Velociraptor had feathers?
Mongolia
Where were Velociraptor fossils first found?
Fight
What does the Fighting Dinosaurs fossil show?
Claw
What was the large sickle claw used for?
Name
What does Velociraptor mean?
Movie
Which dinosaur was the movie raptors' size closer to?
Period
When did Velociraptor live?
Family
Which family did Velociraptor belong to?
Desert
What kind of environment did Velociraptor live in?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: About how big was a real Velociraptor?
Answer: About the size of a turkey
It was about 2 meters long with its tail.
Q2: What evidence shows Velociraptor had feathers?
Answer: Quill knobs on its arm bones
Feathers anchored to these bumps.
Q3: Where were Velociraptor fossils first found?
Answer: Mongolia
Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition found them.
Q4: What does the Fighting Dinosaurs fossil show?
Answer: Velociraptor locked in combat with Protoceratops
They were buried together.
Q5: What was the large sickle claw used for?
Answer: Pinning or gripping prey
It was on the second toe.
Q6: What does Velociraptor mean?
Answer: Swift thief
Henry Fairfield Osborn named it in 1924.
Q7: Which dinosaur was the movie raptors' size closer to?
Answer: Deinonychus or Utahraptor
Michael Crichton borrowed details.
Q8: When did Velociraptor live?
Answer: Late Cretaceous
About 75 to 71 million years ago.
Q9: Which family did Velociraptor belong to?
Answer: Dromaeosaurids
They are close to birds.
Q10: What kind of environment did Velociraptor live in?
Answer: A sandy desert-like region
The Gobi had dunes then too.

Velociraptor Quiz – The Real Raptor

Velociraptor was a small, feathered predatory dinosaur that lived about 75 to 71 million years ago in what is now Mongolia and China. It was about the size of a turkey, with a long stiff tail and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.

Fossils were first found by Roy Chapman Andrews' expeditions to the Gobi Desert in the 1920s. The famous Fighting Dinosaurs fossil shows a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops, both buried by a collapsing sand dune.

Quill knobs on Velociraptor arm bones prove it had feathers. Movie raptors in Jurassic Park were larger and scaly, closer to Deinonychus or Utahraptor in size. Velociraptor and its relatives are closely related to birds.

What This Quiz Teaches

Dinosaur fans and film fans will enjoy these questions.

How big Velociraptor was
Whether it had feathers
Where it was found
What the Fighting Dinosaurs show
How movies changed its image

Did You Know?

Velociraptor could not fly.
It may have hunted alone.
Its brain was large for a dinosaur.
Raptors had stiff tails for balance.
Microraptor had four wings.