Wissenschaftler haben in China die Spuren eines 5 Meter langen Raubvogels (Familie der Troodontiden) und 1,8 Meter langen Beine entdeckt und damit die bisher über die Größenspanne der Art bekannten Erkenntnisse in Frage gestellt

>“When people think of raptor dinosaurs, they most likely think of those in the Jurassic Park movies – human-sized, muscly, aggressive hunters,” Dr Romilio said.
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>“But these tracks were left by a much slimmer and brainier group in the Velociraptor family known as Troodontids, which emerged in the late Jurassic period around 95 million years ago.
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>“This raptor was around 5-metres-long with 1.8 metre-long legs, far exceeding the size of the raptors depicted in Jurassic Park.
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>“Imagine something like that coming at you at full speed!”

Paper: [Deinonychosaur trackways in southeastern China record a possible giant troodontid: iScience](https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00820-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004224008204%3Fshowall%3Dtrue)