Deinonychus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Deinonychus
- Continent
- North America
- Group
- Theropod
- Period
- Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- Medium (3–9 m)
- Moves
- On two legs
- Feature
- Feathers
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its name means terrible claw, after the big curved claw on each of its feet.
- Its discovery by John Ostrom in the 1960s helped show that dinosaurs were active, bird-like animals.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q14405 · All prehistoric life · All entries