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a feathered murder-puppet built before nature invented mercy or restraint.
means A bird of prey — like a hawk, eagle, falcon, or owl — that hunts and kills other animals with its talons and hooked beak; in modern usage it also names the agile predatory dinosaurs popularized as 'raptors.'
from From Latin raptor, 'one who seizes or carries off,' from rapere, 'to snatch, grab, seize by force' — the same grasping root that gives us rapture (being seized by joy), rape, ravish, and even rapid. So the name is literal: a raptor is, simply, a snatcher. The dinosaur sense rides on the genus name Velociraptor, coined in the early 20th century from velox 'swift' plus that same raptor — 'swift seizer.'
- sickle claw
- Held off the ground, swung in to pin live prey.
- actually feathered
- Velociraptor wore plumage, not the movie scales.
- turkey-sized truth
- Real Velociraptor stood barely knee-high.
- keen eyesight
- Forward-facing eyes gave hunters precise depth perception.
- name meaning
- Latin for plunderer or one who seizes.
velociraptors — pack-hunting theropods from cretaceous period, 70-75 million years ago, deinonychus and utahraptor species
peregrine falcon — fastest animal on earth, reaches 240+ mph in hunting dives, found on every continent except antarctica
toronto raptors — nba basketball team founded 1995, won championship in 2019