Dinosaur
Halszkaraptor
Its long neck and low body surprised researchers expecting a conventional raptor.
Its long neck and low body surprised researchers expecting a conventional raptor. Some features have been compared with birds that forage in water, but it was not a modern duck, and researchers do not all interpret its lifestyle in the same way.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
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Halszkaraptor at a glance
- Diet
- Probably carnivorous
- Its anatomy and relatives suggest that it probably ate other animals.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Dromaeosauridae
- Dromaeosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Halszkaraptor
The fossil comes from Mongolia and was studied using techniques that reveal internal details without destroying the bones. Its anatomy attracted attention because it brought together features rarely seen in a single dinosaur.
It has been proposed as a semiaquatic animal that caught small prey, possibly fish. This remains debated, so it is best understood as an anatomy-based hypothesis rather than behavior someone observed.
It has been proposed as a semiaquatic animal that caught small prey, possibly fish. This remains debated, so it is best understood as an anatomy-based hypothesis rather than behavior someone observed.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It has been proposed as a semiaquatic animal that caught small prey, possibly fish. This remains debated, so it is best understood as an anatomy-based hypothesis rather than behavior someone observed.
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