EXTINCT ANIMAL (By Nèstor Ferrer)
VELOCIRAPTOR
This is a good name because Velociraptor was a small dinosaur that could run fast (60 Km/hr). Velociraptor was a theropod. The theropods were a group of dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These groups of dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds.
The Velociraptor was just under a meter tall. The Velociraptor weighed was between 7 and 15 Kg. Velociraptor had feathers on its skin, the same as birds do today. On each foot, they had a large dangerous curved toe claw. Velociraptors were also very agile.
Velociraptor was a carnivore. This means that it ate meat. They ate animals like lizards, little mammals and small dinosaurs.
Velociraptors lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 80 - 85 million years ago. This was only 15 million years before the dinosaurs became extinct. The world was much hotter than it is today, and there were no polar ice caps.
Velociraptor lived in Asia. Fossils have been fond in Russia, China and Mongolia (Gobi desert). They lived in a place that was hot and covered by sand dunes.
3 comentarios
giulia duch -
You talk about a very interesting animal.
Congratulations
maria ballester -
Andreu Arderiu -