Late on Thursday, Christie’s sold the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a species that became one of the world’s most recognizable dinosaurs after the release of the movie “Jurassic ...

Hector, the Deinonychus antirrhopus that will be auctioned at Christie’s. Michael Crichton, the author of “Jurassic Park,” decided to call the creature a velociraptor, which stuck for the movie.

Deinonychus antirrhopus were about the size of wolves. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images. In the blockbuster 1993 movie, raptors were portrayed as highly intelligent predators that worked together ...

Deinonychus antirrhopus were about the size of wolves. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images. In the blockbuster 1993 movie, raptors were portrayed as highly intelligent predators that worked together ...

The 10-foot-long (3 meters) skeleton, unearthed in Montana in 2015, includes 126 fossilized bones of Deinonychus antirrhopus dating to between 115 million and 108 million years ago, during the ...

Using stable isotope analysis, researchers studied tooth carbonate from Deinonychus antirrhopus fossils—a raptor that lived during the early Cretaceous period and had a gnarly set of backward ...

Deinonychus antirrhopus were about the size of wolves. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images. In the blockbuster 1993 movie, raptors were portrayed as highly intelligent predators that worked together ...

Artistic restoration of Deinonychus antirrhopus./Fred Wierum/Wikipedia/Creative Commons By studying the chemistry of the teeth, the paleontologists were able to get clues about the creatures' diet ...

Deinonychus antirrhopus, which weighed up to 100 pounds and was about the size of a wolf, was believed to have hunted solo while roaming across central and Eastern Asia in the late Cretaceous ...

At the time, he believed that Deinonychus antirrhopus was really a large, North American species of Velociraptor, an exclusively Asian genus, and his book uses the name Velociraptor antirrhopus ...

New study found Deinonychus antirrhopus had different carbon isotope values in the smallest and largest teeth. By Chris Ciaccia Fox News. Published August 19, 2020 7:38am EDT. ...

'Hector,' as it was nicknamed, sold for $12.4 million at a Christie's auction. The 100-million-year-old dinosaur, a Deinonychus antirrhopus, is a type of dinosaur first identified in 1964. The ...