What is Achillobator?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Achillobator'' | fossil_range = [[Upper Cretaceous]] | image = Achillobator reconstruction.png | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Artist's impression | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]] | superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia | ordo = [[Saurischia]] | subordo = [[Theropoda]] | familia = [[Dromaeosauridae]] | genus = '''''Achillobator''''' | genus_authority = [[Altangerel Perle|Perle]], [[Mark Norell|Norell]], & [[Jim Clark (paleontologist)|Clark]], 1999}} '''''Achillobator''''' is a [[Dromaeosauridae|dromaeosaurid]] theropod dinosaur from the [[Upper Cretaceous]] [[Period (geology)|period]] of what is now [[Mongolia]]. It lived about 90 million years ago. It was probably an active [[predator]], hunting with the large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot. It was a large dromaeosaurid: the first and only individual specimen found is estimated at being 5 meters (17 feet) long. The name comes from [[Achilles]], a famous ancient [[Greek mythology|Greek]] warrior of the [[Trojan War]]. It refers to the large [[Achilles tendon]] needed to use the sickle claw on the foot, which was the major weapon of dromaeosaurids. The one [[species]] is named ''A. giganticus'' because it is much larger than other dromaeosaurids. {{Taxonbar|from=Q132445}} [[Category:Dromaeosauridae]] [[Category:Cretaceous dinosaurs]] {{biology-stub}}