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Velociraptor lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period. Velociraptor was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle and disembowel prey. Velociraptor (commonly shortened to "raptor") is one of the dinosaurs most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series. In real life, however, Velociraptor was roughly the size of a turkey,
