User blog comment:BastionMonk/No feathers in JPIV/@comment-1791057-20130421170815/@comment-11047508-20130422150001

How can a fictional dinosaur be accurate?

All animals in Avatar are fictional. But all of them were designed by scientists. All creatures in Avatar could physiologically exists. Fictional creatures like the Xenomorph of Alien or the T-virus of Resident Evil defy basic physiological laws.

Nykoraptors are fictional. I want to know if Horner made sure that their body plan and their movements are within the limits of what real Dromaeosaurs were capable of. If the Nykoraptor is accurate, I'm sure Horner will give us accurate JP4-raptors.