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Except when the hunt, which, come to think of it, they wouldn't as they can't time travel... But if they'd hunt you, it probably wouldn't be in packs, since there's no evidence for Velociraptor hunting or even socializing in this way. We do have evidence for feathered raptors, though. V-raptor wasn't even two meters long, and only came up to your knee. Like a mini-poodle nipping at your ankles.

Could you be overpowered by a wee little fluffy Velociraptor? I hope not. That'd be embarrassing. Don't tell anyone.

Now if I wanted to scare you, I'd make you watch "T. rex Autopsy." -MM

Perhaps no feathers in Jurassic Park as it would break canon?

I see a flood of paleoart with fluffy dinos - they are becoming far more common than the scaly depictions.

Birds are the decedents of dinosaurs, while gators are the decedents of the ancestors of dinosaurs. Lizards and other critters are only very distantly related in the grand picture.

Now, if you're referring to a brontosaur in the Congo, or a pleisosaur in a Scottish lake - nope. Stories. Great, fun stories.

Frankly, if I thought that non-avian dinosaurs, like a brontosaur, were still alive in Africa - I'd be out there trying to ride it.

My favorite critter is whatever I happen to be preparing or thinking about at the time. Stegosaurus has circled back in my mind lately, and I suppose that's my answer. When you spend time with a particular fossil, you develop a fondness for it whether it is an Inoceramus clam or the beautiful Stegosaurus.

What's your favorite fossil?

Dinosaurs existed. We can't lie to kids and waffle about reality to preserve an ill-informed belief. That being said, ridiculing believers for their fear of science will keep otherwise curious brains from challenging concepts within their own canon. -MM