Comments on: Hesperonychus: A Tiny Killer

By: P-Easy, K-Shizzeh [PenaltyKillah]

P-Easy, K-Shizzeh [PenaltyKillah] — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:16:07 +0000

Gone are the “raptors” of Jurassic Park – those scaly, featherless dromaeosaurids that the Velociraptors represented.

They don’t exist.

Kids may be shocked to know that nearly every small theropod looks like birds. In particular, robins. God, will all the childhood fascination in dinosaurs perish!

Those Hesperonychus may be a Therizinosaurid.

By: Brian Switek

Brian Switek — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:28:58 +0000

Alan; I love the restoration. I think if they made a plush version based upon Longrich’s drawing they would make quite a bit of money (I’d buy one!).

Melanie; Currie & Longrich said that they expect to find more Hesperonychus, but the “original” specimen was actually found in the early 1980′s. Yet another treasure that was dug up in a museum long after it had been taken from the field.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:07:57 +0000

Before I moved from Edmonton, Currie and co. were working on an excavation somewhere in southeast Edmonton (although they couldn’t say where, because of looting problems). I wonder if this is what came from that site?

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:45:11 +0000

The artist, of course, thought it would be neat to give them the coloration of a fox.