Utahraptor Itsy Bitsie Cuddly Toy

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Measures 8cm Soft velour material Stuffed toy firm to touch Suitable for ages 3 years & up If a dinosaur could be called cute at all then this is the one to do it! A Natural History Museum branded baby Utahraptor with lots of great detail but lacking those fiercesome teeth
- well, he is just a baby after all! Who knows dinosaurs better than the natural History Museum... Physical Characteristics The Utahraptor was a large but comparatively lightly built, fast-moving, agile, bipedal (walked on two legs), bird-like dinosaur. It had a curved, flexible neck & a big head. Sharp, serrated teeth were set into very powerful jaws. Each of its three fingers on each arm had large, sharp, curved claw. It had four-toed feet; the second toe had a 9-15 inch (23-38 cm) sickle-like claw & the other toes had smaller claws. Its long tail had bony rods running along the spine giving it rigidity; the tail was used for balance & fast turning ability. It had a relatively large brain & large, keen, eyes. Utahraptor was 16-23 feet (5-7 m) long & may have weighed about 1 ton. Habitat Utahraptor was first found in eastern Utah (in the western United States) in 1991. It was named by paleontologists James Ian Kirkl&, Robert Gaston & Donald Burge in 1993 Behaviour Utahraptor walked on two slender, bird-like legs & must have been a fast runner, considering its legs & light weight. When it ran, it rotated its huge middle-toe-claw upwards & ran on the other toes. Utahraptor was a dromaeosaurid, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight) was the highest among the dinosaurs. Diet Utahraptor was a carnivore, a meat eater. It probably ate just about anything it could slash & tear apart. When hunting in packs, Utahraptor could probably kill any prey it desired, attacking even very large animals, perhaps even large sauropods & ankylosaurids. Strange & Interesting Facts Utahraptor is pronounced: YOO-tah-RAP-tor & means Robber from Utah. The Utahraptor lived in the early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.