Place Your Bets, a Velociraptor vs a Modern Bird
Spoiler: Velociraptor dies
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for two decades, or in North Korea, which is basically the same thing, you’ve might have heard of the 1993 movie: Jurassic Park — directed by Steven Spielberg. That movie featured dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. The film was an iconic masterpiece that fueled the imaginations of future paleontologists and civilians alike. The CGI might not have aged very well according to today’s standards, but it still left a mark on me personally. Now, there were two cool dinosaurs in that movie — three if you were into that “SprayingUmbrellasaur” — : one was the Tyrannosaurus rex or T-rex, and the other one was the Velociraptor. Velociraptors were these terrifying human-sized man-eating death lizards that walked on their hind legs, and can open doors.
I was a big fan of those Velociraptor fellas when I was a little boy, which is precisely why — in my twenties — when I went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta to see all the fossils, I was disappointed beyond relief.
I came up to this little sorry excuse of a dinosaur skeleton and even posted my frustrations on Instagram. These…
