Dromaeosaurus hunting Parksosaurus

65,500,000 years ago in Montana, a Dromaeosaurus hunts for something to eat. And today's menu is - fresh Parksosaurus. But Parksosaurus are not easy prey...They can run very fast and are very agile. But Dromaeosaurus is very fast and is very agile too. See if the vicious predator could manage to catch one.

Dromaeosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in the western United States and Alberta, Canada. The name means 'running lizard' and is derived from the Greek dromeus (δρομευς) meaning 'runner' and sauros (σαυρος) meaning 'lizard'. It was a small carnivore, the size of a wolf, about 1.8 m (6 ft) in length and 15 kg (33 lb) in weight. Its mouth was full of sharp teeth and a sharp "sickle claw" on each foot. Although only a few bones are known from the hindlimb, they indicate that Dromaeosaurus was a powerfully built animal. Dromaeosaurus had remarkably large eyes and excellent vision. It also probably had a good sense of smell and hearing. Its neck was curved flexible and its jaws were solidly built. The tail was flexible at the base but sheathed in a lattice of bony rods; this allowed it to be carried in a sharply upturned position.


Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") was a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull, showing it to have been a small, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur. It is one of the few described non-hadrosaurid ornithopods from the end of the Cretaceous in North America. Explicit estimates of the entire size of the animal have not been done, but William Parks found the hindlimb of his T. warreni to be about the same length overall as that of Thescelosaurus neglectus, even though the shin was shorter than the thigh in T. neglectus, the opposite of T. warreni (93.0 centimeters (3.05 ft) versus 95.5 centimeters (3.13 ft)).[1] Thus, the animal would have been comparable to the better-known Thescelosaurus in linear dimensions, despite proportional differences (around 1 meters (3.28 ft) tall at the hips, 2-2.5 meters (6.56-8.2 ft) long).[1] The proportional differences probably would have made it lighter, though, as less weight was concentrated near the thigh.

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[imdamaster2010]

lol a 0:32 the dromaeosaur is like nooooooooooooooo!!!! and then started cursing btw nice vid

[knightscum07]

HAHAHA yeah if you can understand dromaeosaur language like I do you will hear that what he said is similar to that!

[riceicles123]

those wee dinosaurs look exacly like othnilia in ballad of big al

[knightscum07]

Yes...They are very closely related to Othnelia.

[kevinherbert]

That's cause the BBC used the same model for it.

[knightscum07]

No...That's because they're both hypsilophodonts.

[Dinomanallah]

nice video friend

[AwesomeussRex]

Oh yeah i found out something.

They found a tooth that may have been Dromaes' from the Hell Creek

[maral430]

it is utahraptor!

[sootyferrari65]

@bass109 Really, when? If so I will punch him in the face and say "where the hell have you been for the last 2000 years?"

[bass109]

Jesus is coming soon! repent and prepare for the lord

[sammy8482]

looks like dryosaurus

[gabrielrafiq1]

this is not a dromeasaurus it´s a utharaptor or not?

[vinhavatar]

Parkso lived 65 million of years B.C. during the Late Cretaceous along with Dromeo, T-Rex and Tricera.

[TheStupidRaptor]

The Dromaeosaurus is the only one who can save us all from Weegee's evil, because he is too stupid to be affected by his death stare.

[Stephen0Stevie0]

god that almost passes for the raptors in jurassic park:p