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The "Super-raptor" was a dinosaur of unknown identity or possibly a fictional dinosaur that was considered for The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but Steven Spielberg discarded it because he felt that it was "a little too much out of a horror movie" and that he "didn't want to create an alien."[1]

AlphaRaptor

The Boss raptor from Jurassic Park: Trespasser, possibly based off of 'Super-raptor.'

In The Lost World, a Velociraptor said to be the most deadly of its kind would lead the pack to attack the humans. It was cut due to feeling too unnatural. It may have been a genetically modified Velociraptor or one with gigantism or a similar genetic defect/mutation, similar to the boss raptor in Jurassic Park: Trespasser.

As stated before, it is unknown if this "Super-raptor" was a nickname for an already existing dinosaur species or if it was fictional. One might assume that it was the similarly named Utahraptor, the largest known dromaeosaur. The latter would be most likely since it was described in 1993, coincidentally the same year Jurassic Park came out. Whereas, Megaraptor was described scientifically in 1998, after The Lost World: Jurassic Park came out.

Trivia[]

  • It was said that the Indoraptor was based on this raptor, as they are both raptor dinosaurs that are more advanced than normal Velociraptors and are larger than regular Velociraptors.

Notes and references[]

  1. Speilberg, Steven, Friedman, Lester D., Notbohm, Brent. (2000) Steven Spielberg: Interviews, p. 202. (Google Books) Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/about/Steven_Spielberg.html?id=5E80Tv7F3zIC

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