Dinosaur
Deinonychus
Its fossils have been recovered in several states in the United States, including Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Oklahoma.
Deinonychus helped change how people pictured dinosaurs. Its bones did not fit the old image of a clumsy, sluggish creature.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Deinonychus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Dromaeosauridae
- Dromaeosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Deinonychus
It could reach about 3.4 meters long. Its large foot claws and horizontal posture helped change the image of dinosaurs as slow, clumsy animals.
Its fossils have been recovered in several states in the United States, including Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Oklahoma. Body posture and joints provide clues about movement. Studying them together is more useful than attributing an exact speed just based on the appearance of its claws.
This family includes the animals commonly called raptors, with a large claw on the second toe. Feathers are documented in its members; movie reconstructions are not a reliable guide to their actual size.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Deinonychus antirrhopus
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- Deinonychus
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- Dromaeosauridae
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