Why Do We Celebrate National Velociraptor Awareness Day?

National Velociraptor Awareness Day Activities

1. Host a movie marathon

   What better way to celebrate these ancient, killer birds than by spending a night watching all four "Jurassic Park" films. Make sure to invite someone who's never experienced the "lost world."

2. Meet the Flintstones

   Fred and Wilma Flintstone, model citizens of Bedrock, owned a pet raptor named, what else, Dino. Introduce your kids to scary creatures through the wonder of 1960s-era animation during National Velociraptor Awareness Day.

3. Head to a museum

   Try the Natural History Museum in New York City or the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Plan a trip to check out real fossils and the land of dinosaurs that still exist.

Why We Love National Velociraptor Awareness Day

1. We're still finding them

   Velociraptor fossils have surfaced in Mongolia and China, but the search continues throughout the world.

2. They're celebrities

   Raptors play a big role in all of the "Jurassic Park" movies. They're portrayed as cunningly smart villains.

3. They're terrifying — as you can well imagine

   These carnivores had long, retractable claws as well as 26–28 teeth for killing and consuming prey.

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Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” films turned raptors into legitimate Hollywood superstars during the early ’90s. National Velociraptor Awareness Day on April 18 gives us a reason to once again ponder this creature that roamed the Earth 70 million years ago. 

Here’s one fact we often overlook: raptors, unlike those in the films, did not stand over 7 feet tall. They were roughly 6 1/2 feet long and measured less than 2 feet high at the hip. (But they did have some frightening hips.) They also had feathers and wings. In reality — they sort of resembled turkey dinosaurs.

Still, the filmmakers were onto something.

That’s because production on “Jurassic Park”  began before the 1991 discovery of the so-called Utahraptor skeleton — measuring 5 1/2 feet tall — the largest at that time. Said one film designer: “We designed it, we built it, and then they discovered it. That still boggles my mind.”

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