User blog comment:BastionMonk/No feathers in JPIV/@comment-24.183.222.137-20130424004325/@comment-76.124.111.173-20130501172350

Everyone (well, almost everyone) loves the original movies and raptors, but there seems to be a visceral reaction against feathered dinosaurs because a lot of people don't understand the potential for badassery that feathers enable. There is an entirely plausible hypothesis that feathered raptors used their sickle claws and proto-wings in combination to prey-ride the animals that they hunted, gripping them with the claws on their feet and "stability flapping" to maintain their balance until their prey collapsed from exhaustion and the raptors ate them alive. Some animals, like the galapagos hawk still do this today.