Deinonychus facts for kids
Quick facts for kids DeinonychusTemporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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Deinonychus
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| Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom, 1969
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Deinonychus was a medium theropod dinosaur. It was a dromaeosaur, and also a larger relative of the famous Velociraptor. This 3.4 meter (11 ft) long Deinonychus lived during the Lower Cretaceous, about 115-108 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the U.S. states of Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.
Deinonychus is perhaps the single most important dinosaur discovered in the mid 20th century.
Paleoecology
Deinonychus remains have been found near those of the ornithopod Tenontosaurus. Teeth discovered near Tenontosaurus specimens suggest it was hunted or at least scavenged by Deinonychus.
Images for kids
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Specimen MCZ 4371 with skull cast at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University
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Reconstructed skeleton of specimen AMNH 3015, with outdated hand posture
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Size compared with a human
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Size of Deinonychus (6) compared with other dromaeosaurids
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Emily Willoughby's interpretation of a Deinonychus preying on a Zephyrosaurus in manner suggested by Fowler et al. (2011)
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Foot (MOR 747) in flexion
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Reconstructed skull and neck, Royal Ontario Museum
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Cast in climbing posture
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Hand bones of MOR 747
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Restoration of a walking individual
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Artist's impression of an individual in brooding position
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Mounted skeletons of Deinonychus and the contemporary Zephyrosaurus (left), Natural History Museum of Denmark
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Hypothetical feathered model adjacent to an earlier, featherless model from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History
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See also
In Spanish: Deinonychus antirrhopus para niños
