Body length2 m
1.33Scarf lengths
80,000Pollen grain widths
2Belt lengths
Nose to tail
Photo from Wikimedia Commons
Velociraptor
A feathered pack hunter the size of a turkey, not a movie monster/Dinosaurs & Extinct Animals
Forget the Jurassic Park version. The real Velociraptor was about the size of a large turkey, covered in feathers, and had a devastating sickle-shaped claw on each foot. Fossils found in Mongolia show it was an agile predator of the Late Cretaceous, and one famous fossil preserves it locked in combat with a Protoceratops.
Measurements
Body mass15 kg
30Burritos
3.33House cats
103Baseballs
About the size of a large turkey
Estimated top speed11 m/s
2.75Running chickens
3.2 hundredthsSpeeds of sound
6.9 billionContinental drifts
About 40 km/h
Standing height5 tenths m
3.2 hundredthsSubway cars
8.6 trillionthsMercury orbit radii
5 billionX-ray wavelengths
At the hip
Sickle claw length6.5 hundredths m
2.7 quadrillionthsVoyager 1 distances
8.6 tenthsHockey puck diameters
9.5 hundredthsTennis rackets
The famous killing claw, ~6.5 cm
Skull length2.5 tenths m
9.4 tenthsDinner plates
10.3Quarters
3.6 hundredthsTow truck lengths
Long, narrow snout
Era2.4 quadrillion s
18.8 millionUS presidencies
13.2 trillionCommercial breaks
Lived about 75 million years ago