Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-1259419-20151205113331

It is claimed over and over on this wiki and the web that the "Velociraptors" in the JP films are not the real-life s. Many claim they are misclassified Deinonychuses or Utahraptors. However, this is mainly because the film raptors are too large.

Purpose of this tread: Which real-life theropod, that we know now, corresponds best with the raptors we have seen in the movies.

The issue of how G.S. Paul mixed up the classification of Velociraptors and Deinonychus and Michael Crichton's personal belief on that matter are irrelevant. We have heard it 10.000 times, time to move the discussion a step further.

Comparison
Here are the skulls of Velociraptor and Deinonychus:



If I compare these skulls with the Raptors from the films:

Which skulls corresponds best with the film raptors? 