Scientists say Velociraptor had feathers

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A close study of a velociraptor forearm found in Mongolia shows the presence of quill knobs, bumps on the bone where the feathers anchor, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

"Finding quill knobs on velociraptor ... means that it definitely had feathers. This is something we'd long suspected, but no one had been able to prove," Alan Turner

The velociraptor the researchers studied was about three feet tall and weighed about 30 pounds. The size of these animals was exaggerated in the movie.[Jurassic Park]

I find this interesting. Of course dinosaurs have fascinated me since I was in 2nd grade when they were introduced to me. Of course I had to then have a pet lizard because back then dinosaurs were thought to be large lizards. It was some type of lizard that was larger than a chameleon that was kept in an aquarium but it died after a few years and then I had chameleons. At one time I had three chameleons with one having a shorter tail because it was snapped off and it grew a new one only smaller.

But I'll just point out that the animals were not exaggerated in the movie. Raptors could grow to over 6 feet tall and that's about how tall I remember the Raptors being in Jurassic Park. After all they could go through doors and open doors. And I don't remember them towering over Grant.