The Velociraptors of "Jurassic Park" were terrifyingly large, merciless killing machines. The stuff of nightmares, yes. The stuff of reality? Not so much. Scientific research has long held the real ...

Paleontologist Robert Bakker’s exclamation to his colleague, Jim Kirkland, on the phone back in 1991 was quite literally about a big discovery. Digging in Gaston Quarry in Grand County, Utah, Kirkland ...

Popular media like "Jurassic Park" might have made velociraptors the go-to for dinosaur fans, but the clever creatures capable of opening doors in Michael Crichton's science fiction-horror novel are ...

A rare skeleton of the dinosaur that was the prototype for Jurassic Park’s Velociraptor sold for $12.4 million at Christie’s late Thursday evening, more than double expectations, illustrating that the ...

Each of the dinosaurs in the "Jurassic Park" franchise is ferocious in their own way, but the ones on this list are the ...

Shri rapax had bigger claws and potentially a stronger bite than its Hollywood relative. But paleontologists still don’t know the whereabouts of its head, which went missing. The newly named raptor ...