Deinonychus

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Deinonychus

Species:

  • D. antirrhopus

Deinonychus ("terrible claw") is an extinct genus of dinosaurs from the cretaceous (~110-100mya). Deinonychus was about 3 metres long, 1.5 metres tall, and was fast and bipedal. Three Deinonychus fossils have been found in the northwestern United States.

Type Species: Deinonychus antirrhopus (John Ostrom, 1969)

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