Utahraptor

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8 ай бұрын

The large "Velociraptors" in Stephen Spielberg's Jurassic Park were based on Deinonychus antirrhopus (which science advisor Gregory S. Paul classified as a species of Velociraptor), with a slightly exaggerated size for movie purposes. The recent discovery of the new genus Utahraptor gave the filmmakers a convenient excuse for the movie raptors' size. The funny thing is, now that more fossils of Utahraptor have been found, it turns out to have such insane proportions that it leaves the raptors of Jurassic Park/World in the dust.
Utahraptor artwork in the thumbnail by Fred Wierum.
Utahraptor skeleton by Gaston Design Inc.
Comparison between Velociraptor foot and Utahraptor foot taken from / paleocameron
Comparison between Velociraptor skull and Utahraptor skull taken from / paleojim
Utahraptor skull 3D print by / ddakotaraptor
Idea shamelessly stolen from Scanova the Carnotaurus' Parasaurolophus size video: • Parasaurolophus

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@AmethystGuy03 8 ай бұрын

To think that it's bigger than the jurassic park raptors is both astonishing, and terrifying

@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 8 ай бұрын

So terrifying indeed

@surgeonsergio6839 8 ай бұрын

Of course it is. To an ignorant amateur like you.

@rexmexzilla 8 ай бұрын

mhe you could kill it with a nuke

@AmethystGuy03 8 ай бұрын

@rexmexzilla using one nuke for a single animal. How logical and fair (sarcasm)

@Bagelgeuse 8 ай бұрын

@@rexmexzillaYou can kill every animal with a nuke so what's your point?

@lbrett7054 8 ай бұрын

Sometimes I forget how big Utahraptor really was and it surprises me everytime with it's size.

@Jormyyy 8 ай бұрын

That's what she said

@DinoFan1993 8 ай бұрын

@@Jormyyy😐

@legthieff 8 ай бұрын

@@Jormyyy so funny I’m laughing my head off 😐

@furyfossil4407 8 ай бұрын

@@Jormyyy So funny that I forgot to laugh. 😐

@Jormyyy 8 ай бұрын

@furyfossil4407 that's that's she said

@GandalfTheTsaagan 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, more often than not people is unaware of how ridiculously huge Utahraptor was.

@Geedy3 8 ай бұрын

Utahraptor is the one dinosaur that has its size underestimated constantly.

@GhaniKSW 7 ай бұрын

it and hadrosaurs

@Flufux 7 ай бұрын

...and dilophosaurus.

@mailstorminurbox 8 ай бұрын

"well actually it's a UTAHRAPTOR so that's why it is this size 🤓" meanwhile the Utahraptor: Call me an juvenile allosaurus

@zadas1132 8 ай бұрын

I knew Utahraptor was the largest type of raptor but the fact just it's head alone was like the size of a 14 year old is just insane

@BermudaHawk47 8 ай бұрын

Bro what 14 year olds are you seeing lol

@zadas1132 8 ай бұрын

@@BermudaHawk47 The fuck you on about?

@thescorchingpteranodon7986 8 ай бұрын

Are you drunk?

@LuigiG145 8 ай бұрын

Just wanna let y'all know that Utahraptor has raised neural spines implying strong upper back muscles, and robust, short metatarsals with a thick-ass femur so it was probably built to wrestle and kick/stomp the shit out of things.

@Pastamist 8 ай бұрын

Oh great, a hellbird well-rounded in wrestling AND muay thai. Btw did it have to compete with any other predators?

@justusb.plorer8773 8 ай бұрын

@@PastamistYes, but none that were larger itself.

@catpoke9557 8 ай бұрын

So an absolutely freaking gigantic secretary bird, basically

@mario199923 8 ай бұрын

Still bet you it back down if a Kangaroo squared up

@catpoke9557 8 ай бұрын

@@mario199923 Maybe, but if it did it would just be because it doesn't know what a kangaroo can do lol kangaroos are strong and all but not bear sized dinosaur strong

@evodolka 8 ай бұрын

I knew it was Polar Bear sized, but I guess I never realy knew how big those things got

@aspoopyboi1123 8 ай бұрын

“You’ve just triggered my fight of flight response, and I’m a flightless bird”

@Garryzilla 8 ай бұрын

Ok that was genius using Godzilla’s theme being the monsterverse godzilla theme and using that on a Utahraptor which is perfect cause the Utahraptor is basically the godzilla of the maniraptorians

@rayhanmustakim7073 8 ай бұрын

Utahraptor is definitely much more of a threat to humans than a full grown T.rex. They should used Utahraptor as the dino "villain" in the second movie rather than some super genetically engineered dino like Indoraptor.

@jurassictyrantkingYT 8 ай бұрын

23 ft in length and weighs as much as a polar bear. Imagine if this species officially had feathers and was the star dinosaur and Not Velociraptor of the original Jurassic Park.

@markcobuzzi826 8 ай бұрын

I would also like to imagine that, in an alternate universe where Utahraptor coexisted with Ancient/Medieval humans (and their bestiaries erroneously portrayed the Utahraptor's wings and clawed hands as two separate limbs, like with bats sometimes), encountering such a beast would have been the closest thing to meeting a real-life mythical griffin.

@RokuroCarisu 8 ай бұрын

@markcobuzzi826 If the griffin had been a real animal, it would most definitely have been related to the platypus.

@Insert_name_here2024 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, it was discovered after the movie released but if it was described sometime before, that would most definitely be the case.

@markcobuzzi826 8 ай бұрын

@@Insert_name_here2024 From what I heard, Crichton and Spielberg’s raptors were inspired by both Deinonychus and (what would eventually be named) Achillobator being briefly synonymized with the Velociraptor genus by certain theorists. The Jurassic Park raptors are basically a combination of the Velociraptor’s name, the Deinonychus’ appearance, the Achillobator’s size (in between Deinonychus and Utahraptor), and all three species’ native regions (such as Dr. Grant digging up a “Velociraptor” in Montana, where Deinonychus lived).

@Supiragon1998 7 ай бұрын

The length is more like 18 feet ever since they discovered it was bulkier than other raptors, but yeah, the 500 kg weight estimate is still valid.

@RHoi4 8 ай бұрын

The scary part is, it's probably as big as the indoraptor if not bigger

@TheGamingBurger734 8 ай бұрын

As a kid who's favourite dinosaur aside from good ol' rexy was Utahraptor and I always thought it was the cooler raptor than Velociraptor due to how large it was. I even saw it on Walking With Dinosaurs but my goodness.... I never thought they were *THAT* big....

@TitanKaiju75 8 ай бұрын

So stoked to have this big fella in Jurassic World Evolution 2 in a few days!

@Tucher97 8 ай бұрын

I once read a joke article that went something like "feathered raptors would mostly be snugglers when conditions got harsh, as a result, if the raptors in jurassic park were more animal, maybe accurate. We see raptor handler George unable to move because a raptor thought his head needs to be kept warm.

@yissibiiyte 8 ай бұрын

imagine how big Ohioraptor will be

@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0 8 ай бұрын

Dat raptor is t rex sized

@RokuroCarisu 8 ай бұрын

@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0 Then Texasraptor would be even bigger than a T-rex. In fact, they would name it _Texasraptor rex_ just for shortening it to "Tex Rex".

@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD 7 ай бұрын

@@RokuroCarisuso, it’s the T. Rex?

@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD 7 ай бұрын

Alaskaraptor laughing in the corner:

@COVID-19_Crab 7 ай бұрын

Laughs in Dakotaraptor

@legionbeast 8 ай бұрын

The idea that an animal that big was built to just pin down and pull chunks off of it's prey instead of delivering a kill bite or anything is more than a little horrifying to think about.

@Utahraptor1987 8 ай бұрын

Imagine if they actually included Utahraptor in a future Jurassic World film, there would be a lot of potential.

@AgroAcro 8 ай бұрын

It is on the upcoming Jurassic World Evolution 2 dlc, so that is cool.

@Utahraptor1987 8 ай бұрын

I know, that makes me so excited!!!😆

@Pastamist 8 ай бұрын

I do have ideas to include it in a Jurassic Park/World fan project, but I don’t wanna spout all my ideas here out of the blue lol I’m just really happy that it’s coming in the new DLC

@savannahvarns2126 8 ай бұрын

wait so if the Jurassic park velociraptors are already oversized then imagine how big a potential JP utahraptor would be

@AgroAcro 8 ай бұрын

@@savannahvarns2126 I hope they don't oversize it. It is already noticably larger than even the JP Raptors so I think they should make it the correct size.

@DISTurbedwaffle918 8 ай бұрын

I recently looked up Utahraptor the other day because I was wondering how much bigger it was compared to Velociraptor. Needless to say, I was given a harsh lesson in the overwhelming disparity between the two.

@noahvcat9855 8 ай бұрын

If I remember, many of the larger dromeosaurs such as Utahraptor are already at or near the size where their ecological niche in their ecosystem is similar to many other large bodied theropods like Allosaurus and T-Rex, Utahraptor is somewhat of a exception as it still had a life style somewhat similar to some smaller size dromeosaurs though correct me if I am wrong

@kade-qt1zu 8 ай бұрын

I think you're confusing Utahraptor with Dakotaraptor.

@claudianielsen7901 2 күн бұрын

I keep forgetting about how big the Utahraptor is, and I’m from there, I’ve seen them in museums and I keep forgetting how truly big and terrifying they truly are

@CorwinTheOneAndOnly 7 ай бұрын

We also unearthed a complete specimen recently that showcased that utahraptor had a skull more similar to something like a Trex than a deinonychus. Before then, we didnt have a complete skull specimen so we reconstructed it using relatives as a metric This implies that while other raptors were more of a jack of all trades predator, utahraptors put more emphasis on power and bit force and most likely hunted bigger prey

@bkjeong4302 7 ай бұрын

Deinonychus itself had a taller and less tapered skull than once assumed (and even the outdated skull was much larger than a wolf’s skull).

@robertfaucher3750 8 ай бұрын

JP Velociraptor is actually Achillobator. Its literally the EXACT size of them AND was dug up in 1989.

@joelww2501 8 ай бұрын

No, it’s just an oversized Deinonychus. Chrichton used Deinonychus as the template.

@NickLavic 8 ай бұрын

Not exactly, but very close, the JP raptors have a shorter torso. Dakotaraptor is also of a very similar size and it can be found in Montana.

@robertfaucher3750 8 ай бұрын

@@joelww2501 At the time of his writing, there were weird theories about Deinonychus being reclassified as a species of Velociraptor. This was because before the Soviet Union fell in 1991 not much was actually know about Velociraptor in the west, as Mongolia was Soviet aligned, and Michael was writing in the 80s. This meant for awhile what we knew of Velociraptor mostly was based of of assumptions on Deinonychus. Achillobator was named way later in the 90's, but Chrichton would have heard of it as, by way of news article, scientific publication, or book a large Velociraptor/Velociraptor-related dinosaur being discovered in Mongolia. This is why they still come from Mongolia in the books and games. Not to mention that because so little was know about either of them Chrichton could have assumed *Achillobator* was *Velociraptor*.

@robertfaucher3750 8 ай бұрын

@@NickLavic unfortunately Dakotaraptor, while cool, is too smol.

@NickLavic 8 ай бұрын

@@robertfaucher3750 Dakotaraptor too small?! Do yourself a favor and put in Dakotaraptor in Google image search. The Wikipedia image shows it is bigger than achillobator.

@Mac14329 3 күн бұрын

Real-life Utahraptor was everything Jurassic Park's Velociraptors are, but on juice.

@plumdowner1941 3 ай бұрын

From the thumbnail, I can picture Owen Grady with 4 tamed utahraptors instead. That'd go hard af

@Insert_name_here2024 8 ай бұрын

Ngl a utahraptor as a side kick would be more badass than whatever was happening in jurassic world.

@kade-qt1zu 8 ай бұрын

Imagine someone experienced in Falconry having a pack of Deinonychus and Lantenivenatrix.

@stendec6649 8 ай бұрын

@@GideonGreene-qm7co Only Blu isn't a Utahraptor! Her parthenogenic ability is a result of lizard genes, not a dromaeosaur ability. Moreover, the utahraptor was much larger than her and had feathers just like in the latest DLC for JWE2

@No-longer1 7 ай бұрын

You just basically gained a polar bear with sickle claws to aid you

@danielbilodeau9045 8 ай бұрын

That shot of the dude holding the skull cast really puts Utah's size into perspective. This thing was big enough to pick you with its mouth and shake you like a ragdoll until you tear in half.

@Woodswalker96 8 ай бұрын

This music, plus the slow build up of the beginning, plus the shots Utahraptor skull casts next to people, *chef’s kiss*

@rockmuncher_98 8 ай бұрын

thats my favourite dinosaur right there. its unique from other dromaeosaurs because of it's forearm claws being used for slashing, rather than gripping prey.

@langfordentertainmentstudi6745 8 ай бұрын

Was it really that massive??? Damn.

@mizanurrahmanshopon2017 Ай бұрын

The godzilla theme is perfect for utahtaptor

@Scaley_Studios 8 ай бұрын

Hearing a length measurement really doesn't do dinosaur size justice compared to a bone/prop next to a human.

@RokuroCarisu 8 ай бұрын

When it comes to dromaeosaurs, what you have to keep in mind is that half of their total length is the tail alone. A 6-foot Velociraptor doesn't measure up to a 6-foot human. Rather, it's a 3-foot animal with a tail that's another 3 feet long.

@billyis_epik31529 8 ай бұрын

People tend to forget how monsterous these creatures were when they see Owen and his pet, but they also forget the fact one type of dromeosaur can demolish both of the. In one fight.

@jacobcox4565 2 ай бұрын

To anyone who thinks the Jurassic Park Velociraptors look like Utahraptor; no they don't. Look at the skull here 0:46. This animal was way bigger and bulkier than the JP raptors, at least twice as big.

@Aheadmoth8 8 ай бұрын

I feel like with how bulky Utahraptor was its really not worth comparing it to other Dromaeosaurs anymore its really more of a medium-sized theropod in the same vein as like Allosaurus or Ceratosaurus

@DOOMMARINEUwU 8 ай бұрын

A giant ground hawk the size of a grizzly bear,….. yeah JP ain’t got shit on actual Dino’s

@t-r-e-x452 8 ай бұрын

Not expecting Godzilla music. . . but I still like it!

@OGCoolname 5 ай бұрын

Nature somehow always makes things bigger than actual fiction dinosaurs unless we are actually trying

@lordofthegeckos533 8 ай бұрын

Probably the closest thing there ever was to an actual dragon.

@dinomondo_studio 8 ай бұрын

La découverte d'Utahraptor a été importante, parce que le plus grand raptor pendant longtemps été Deinonychus ( 1m50 / 3m ). Celui-ci avait une anatomie similaire mais avec une taille de 2m pour 6 à 7m de long. C'est un raptor vraiment énorme !

@Slomurr 7 ай бұрын

Whats crazy is that every few years its estimated size and weight increases. Before it was like 14-18 ft in length and 600lbs. Then, like around 16-20 ft and 660lbs, then now where it is estimated that it could've reached 20-25 ft in length and weighed at most 1,000lbs. Wild actually.

@Evergreen_Wizard 8 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the great Bear-Eagle

@adamtruong1759 7 ай бұрын

Utahraptor with the Godzilla theme, never thought I'd see that.

@nagyakos8467 8 ай бұрын

Forget the six foot turkey, this is a seven foot eagle. Also watch My Tyrano: Together Forever, it's a great movie that deserves recognition.

@lincolngravemann682 7 ай бұрын

Fun fact its actually not true that the Raptors in jurassic park are based on Utah Raptors from what i understand the book was written before they were even discovered i think that misconception comes from the movie raptors size but they were actually based on the deinonychus and they were called velociraptors because back then they thought they were more closely related

@thepetiii184 8 ай бұрын

That mf is now in JWE and it looks great

@stabster9366 8 ай бұрын

I love that the initial shot makes you think the Deinonychus skeleton is going to be the big one, then it suddenly pans all the way and you see the Utahraptor towering over both of them lol

@mickmouse4650 5 ай бұрын

Man, if they only used raptors like the thumbnail one in JW..

@Godzillakuj94 8 ай бұрын

Glad to see this banger of a track still being used in vids like this

@agthe18themperor 8 ай бұрын

"Wow, he's a big boy!"

@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae 8 ай бұрын

The Godzilla theme was fitting, utahraptor’s huge and I have to be reminded of that

@lazarzilla4871 8 ай бұрын

As you can see, this Primeval fan is also a fucking Godzilla: King of the Monsters connoisseur

@firelizord 24 күн бұрын

utahraptor is basically the godzilla of the raptors

@TheAlienmorph 8 ай бұрын

"Reality is often disappointing" ...but not in this case

@saptarshidas9365 5 ай бұрын

Real life Indoraptor

@Banished-rx4ol 8 ай бұрын

People forget it was one of the biggest raptors more akin to a medium sized carnivore than a small pack hunter

@keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934 8 ай бұрын

I'd love one of them skull casts!

@Charlie-Charlot 6 ай бұрын

The scary thing is that there might be a raptor a lot larger out there called the Bissekty giant

@thecarnomeleon538 8 ай бұрын

As a utah individual I'm glad we have this guy as a claim to fame. HUGE raptor.

@tartoflan 8 ай бұрын

I will now headcanon that Dr. Henry Wu simply downsized all of his dinosaurs, for reasons

@clairedatsaurian 8 ай бұрын

Really? The T. rex is much bigger than any known specimen.

@somerandomperson6511 8 ай бұрын

Except for the rex, giga, non-dinosaurs like mosa and quetz… that shit is just inconsistent and most of it has such an ugly design. I wish we had an actual good high quality dinosaur series

@GhaniKSW 7 ай бұрын

@somerandomperson6511 JP was pretty good for it's time minus the dilophosaurus but it sucks how they just abandoned the decently accurate track record with the JW trilogy

@clovispadilha3237 8 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the 7 meters long, 1 ton Bissekty dromaeosaur to get more fossils.

@rockettbennett 8 ай бұрын

And I bet it will be classified as invalid because we can’t have nice things. I bet it will be a “cHiMaRa” and probably the size of microraptor or something. But a part of still thinks that we could be on to something and this new raptor could actually be that massive. I’m still a little hopeful. This could really help us understand the evolution of raptors. (I don’t care if it’s unscientific it’s a really cool word) BISSEKARAPTOR COULD BE GLORIOUS!

@jross9553 8 ай бұрын

Knowing palaeontology it’ll probably get downsized

@rockettbennett 8 ай бұрын

@@jross9553 Yep that is almost 100% going to be the case. I think there is a 99% chance that it will be like microraptor size like I already said. But again that 1% isn’t 0%!

@jross9553 8 ай бұрын

@@rockettbennettand if it did happen sarco and dunk would feel its pain

@kamatakunborgering 5 ай бұрын

Velociraptor in jurassic world = utahraptor in real life Compy in jurassic world = velociraptor in real life

@dantasneto742 7 ай бұрын

Raptor movie was originally deinonychus but replaced by velociraptor with big size fictional velociraptor, after jurassic park the big raptor was named the known utahraptor ostrommaysi, or

@bkjeong4302 7 ай бұрын

Now imagine if the Bissekty Giant turns out to be as big as its very fragmentary remains indicate (when scaled from Achillobator). You would have a Ceratosaurus-sized dromaeosaur on your hands!

@jross9553 7 ай бұрын

Knowing palaeontology it’ll probably be downsized to the point where it’s smaller than Achillobator

@kennethsatria6607 8 ай бұрын

Now that reveal deserves a "Holy Fuck"

@chrisbarone515 7 ай бұрын

Yikes! That's like the size of Allosaurus!

@daciantalker 8 ай бұрын

wait till we find a 30 ft long dromeosaurid

@yorukraptor 8 ай бұрын

utahraptor my beloved

@godzillabebravethetrexretu1381 8 ай бұрын

Utahraptor should be the main villain in the next Jurassic World movie

@RokuroCarisu 8 ай бұрын

Utahraptor would have made a better "final boss" for Blue than Giganotosaurus was for Rexy.

@Lima11-cd3nq 8 ай бұрын

Befor I hoped that science could bring back the dinosaurs. Now I wish they never do.

@somerandomperson6511 8 ай бұрын

Nah man they could just bring back a cuter smaller dinosaur like the stenonychosaurus or changyuraptor 😂

@azaanimations319 7 ай бұрын

RickRaptor, we have a problem. Someone’s drilled too deep. Jurassic Shark 3 came out.

@AllanVOA 7 ай бұрын

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REVIEW "I AM T-REX"! WE NEED YOU TO RETURN!!!

@Kurotitan7125 7 ай бұрын

Utahraptor dwarfs the JW raptors in JWE2

@Banana_Goose 8 ай бұрын

if i could post the willem defoe looking up gif, I would

@kuitaranheatmorus9932 8 ай бұрын

500kg killing machine, Utahraptor is pretty dope

@TribalRex66 7 ай бұрын

A Utahraptor would be terrifying if it was still alive. To put it into perspective, it was bigger than any land carnivore living today, and studies show that it might've been an ambush predator. So this beast was as large as a salt water crocodile, and you wouldn't know that it's hunting you.

@nateofraptorbash8817 8 ай бұрын

The godzilla music really adds to the suprise

@Loki-animatesdc2760 8 ай бұрын

Ahh yes the biggest raptor The U T A H Raptor

@tomaszhallay6653 5 ай бұрын

BAsically a hawk the size of a polar bear as tall as a rhinoceros. Jesus, the Mesosoic was a hellscape to be in

@miguelpp8342 8 ай бұрын

WHAT DID THOSE MF EAT?!!! Oh, right... Nevermind

@mathisntmybestsubject8440 6 ай бұрын

It might as well be a T-Rex.

@iluvyurbles 8 ай бұрын

Now that is a big one

@Nigel_BC 8 ай бұрын

Have y’all heard about the new-ish fragmentary dromeosaur from Uzbekistan that was originally mistaken for a small Carcharodontosaur? Kinda insane 💀.

@savannahvarns2126 8 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ that thing would make an eustreptospondylus look like a little baby

@RokuroCarisu 8 ай бұрын

You mean Megaraptor, where it turned out that the sickle claws belonged on its fingers?

@Nigel_BC 8 ай бұрын

@@RokuroCarisu I love megaraptorans but no. This animal was discovered much more recently and is likely a dromeosaur! That being said, it is only known from a toe bone, and a potential maxilla. I believe the toe bone is enough to be diagnostic to a general clade though. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7yJgqiH0NO2o4E.htmlfeature=shared

@Dinoslay 8 ай бұрын

Confirmed: Utahraptor is Godzilla.

@BerryDeLajt 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, nature went crazy with those fellas.

@FrshJurassicPrnceYA 7 ай бұрын

Here are other raptor species to check out az well: Achilobator, Austroraptor, Dakotaraptor, and a yet unnamed giant Velociraptorinae from the UK ( from some fossilized teeth).

@henrykkeszenowicz4664 4 ай бұрын

Utahraptor must be comparable to Dilophosaurus and Ceratosaurus in size. And so must Dilophosaurus. No stupid frills, it's a murder cassowary bigger than a big horse.

@Caratrox 8 ай бұрын

Ali koca: Hi Im A FaT BaLd MaNcHiLd aNd ThiS DiNOsaUr iS DumB! People with more than 2 braincells: N O

@varelmarais2222 6 ай бұрын

Weren't the JP raptors based off deinonychus tho

@jacobcox4565 6 ай бұрын

Yes, you can also see a Deinonychus skeleton being compared to the Velociraptor and Utahraptor skeletons in the beginning. People just keep comparing the JP Velociraptors to Utahraptor because they're both big. There's also a lot of misinformation saying that the JP Velociraptors were based on Utahraptor, which isn't true because Utahraptor was described when the film was just about ready to be released into theaters.