Everything you think you know about this ferocious dinosaur is probably incorrect.
But don't feel too bad, Hollywood's quest for drama probably led you astray.
While it was indeed a vicious hunter as blockbuster portrayals suggest, it was only about the size of a turkey and definitely did not hunt human-sized prey in packs.
This was the Velociraptor.
Hi, I'm Talia Lowi-Merri and you're watching Paleologic.
Today I'm here to ruin your childhood.
By that, I mean we're talking about the velociraptor, a dinosaur you may think you know well because of the Jurassic Park franchise, but which is actually as misunderstood as it is famous.
Velociraptor was a genus of two known species which stalked around Central and Eastern Asia back in the late Cretaceous, between 90 and 70 million years ago.
Unlike in Jurassic Park, velociraptors were actually pretty small.
Most of their overall 2 meter length was thanks to their ridiculously long tails.
