Me neither, before I saw the first feathered life-size replicas in dino parks.

And I have to say, they are somehow way more scary than their naked counterparts in my opinion.

So now I am Team Feather!

Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with and enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height

Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Chriton and/or Spielburg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.