Velociraptor were the size of medium sized dogs, not the 6 foot tall killers depicted in Jurassic park. The theory that their toe claws let them disembowel much larger pray with slashing kicks is not supported by bio-mechanical modeling, which suggest their claws lack the sharpness to cut through dermis and would get stick in victim’s skin and muscles instead, leaving the velociraptor in an awkward position vs the now very angry putative victim. In other words the notion that velociraptors would pose mortal danger to human sized mammals should we ever meet them is not well supported by paleontology .
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