Jurassic Park movie was wrong: Velociraptor dinosaurs didn't hunt in groups

The Jurassic Park movie was proved to have misrepresented the image of Velociraptor dinosaurs, when scientists revealed that they did not hunt in groups.

The Jurassic Park series depicts the Raptor dinosaurs as a fearsome species the size of a human and hunts its prey in flocks.

The researchers proved that these two-legged dinosaurs were actually the size of a turkey and covered with a layer of feathers, with two upper limbs resembling wings - though they could not. fly, not to mention they exist in the Cretaceous, not Jurassic.

Experts also further demonstrate that these dinosaurs did not hunt in groups like in the movie.

According to research published in the journal Ancient Geography, Climate Studies, Paleontology, the first clue that they do not hunt in herds comes from extant relatives today, such as birds and reptiles.

Paleontologist Joseph Frederickson from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh said: Raptor dinosaurs are often shown to be hunting in flocks - similar to wolves. However, the evidence for this behavior is completely inconclusive. Because we cannot watch these predators, we have to use indirect methods to determine their behavior in life.

The problem with this idea is that modern dinosaurs (birds) and their relatives (crocodile species) don't usually hunt in groups, and they rarely hunt for larger prey.

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The notion that Raptor hunts in herds comes from evidence that several Velociraptor dinosaurs ate the same prey. This suggests that they watch and eat their prey together.

Herd predators, such as wolves, also share food with their offspring. However, new evidence suggests that this is not the case with Raptor.

If a baby eats with its mother, it will be reflected in the level of carbon isotopes in its teeth. However, researchers from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analyzed the teeth of the young and adults of a Raptor dinosaur called Deinonychus antirrhopus in North America, and found isotopic differences in age groups.

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Instead, there is a change in the carbon isotope in the teeth as they age, which suggests that the ancient monster's diet changed as they got older.

Mr. Frederickson said: "This is what we will see in a species when parents do not provide food for their children. The little teeth and largest not have the same value isotope carcbon average , suggesting that they eat different foods, which means the offspring are not fed by their parents, which is why the team believes that the Jurassic Park movie was wrong to describe the behavior. of the carnivorous dinosaurs Raptor ".

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