Dinosaur
Utahraptor
It is one of the largest known representatives of the dromaeosaurids.
Utahraptor shows just how large some relatives of the much smaller Velociraptor could grow.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Utahraptor 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
- Utah
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Utahraptor
It is known from fossils of adults and young individuals. Its description in 1993 placed it among the large dromaeosaurids, the relatives with curved claws on their feet.
It is one of the largest known representatives of the dromaeosaurids. Finding individuals of different ages allows their growth to be compared. It is not enough to enlarge a baby as if it were a photograph: the proportions of an animal can change as it becomes an adult.
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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- Utahraptor ostrommaysi
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- Utahraptor
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- Dromaeosauridae
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