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...interested in what dinosaurs looked and acted like; they also want to know how they fit into their environment. From what scientists already know about the ancient lake beds where Raptorex was originally found, for example, they know it had some stiff competition. "They would have co-existed with velociraptor-like dinosaurs," says Sereno - the human-scale carnivores that starred in Jurassic Park. But they would have hunted very differently: velociraptors, Sereno explains, "had long, grasping arms with clawed hands." They also had a large, sickle-shaped claw on their middle toes, probably used for slashing prey. It was most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny T. Rex: Fossil Shows the Dino King Started Small | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...just individual careers but entire channels, as well as cable's flood-the-zone philosophy. (Natalee Holloway, Britney and K-Fed--all bigger because of O.J.) O.J. 3 was also a showcase for the outlets that sprang up after O.J.'s first trial, each, like new species of velociraptor, sharper-toothed than the last and eager now to take a bite. Fox News and MSNBC didn't even exist circa O.J. 1, while O.J. 3's big scoop, the hotel-room tape, was reported (i.e., purchased) by muckraker website TMZ.com (owned, like TIME, by Time Warner)--which just happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Peat. | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...investigation into the DNA of dinosaurs has indicated that theropods—a class of carnivorous dinosaur including the velociraptor and the Tyrannosaurus rex—had a genome smaller than that of most vertebrates and other dinosaurs but about the same size as those of modern birds...

Author: By Nelson T. Greaves, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T-Rex Did Not Have King-sized DNA | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

James Huth (age 8, brother of Phoebe, son of Professor Huth) had more complicated plans: "I'm gonna be a Velociraptor with wings, from the ad on TV with the mutant dinosaurs. Me and my family made it--it's actually some green clothes with spray paint and cardboard...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: cHiLD's PlaY | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Last year she repeated the experience with a cover updating the conventional wisdom about dinosaurs; Alexander has had similar success with a cover exploring the dawn of life. Notes Wallis: "If you have a new artifact to look at -- the skull of an early hominid, the talon of a velociraptor -- you can engage in a thrilling kind of time traveling. Add some evocative writing, and readers can be transported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Mar. 14, 1994 | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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