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  I want one!
context: Beware of the feathered harbinger of death known only as the megaraptor not to be mistaken with the velociraptor who is a tiny chicken. >
  
  Megaraptors aren't dromaeosaurs (raptors), (they may have been feathered, but this is unclear). They are a medium sized type of dinosaur with a large sickle claw on their hand (similar to Baryonychine spinosaurs, Noasaurs and Neovenatorids... it appears many dinosaurs had hand claws). The featherd dionsaur being referred to is the Dromaeosaur Unenlagia >
  
  Dinos go "rawr!" >
  
  Many dinosaurs, such as Hadrosaurs, probably went "honk" >
  
  That does give Jurassic park a less intense vibe. >
  
  You have obviously never met a goose >
  
  I've been terrorised by a few Canadian goose on my time. Honestly moose park would be just as majestic and terrifying. Probably couldn't have made it into the kitchen though. >
  
  Misleading title. 
  Reuters' title gives the impression that fossils containing evidence of feathered dinosaurs were found.
  Unless I missed it somehow, the article doesn't talk about finding any evidence of feathers at all. 
  The megaraptor remains they found "also include some unusual remains of unenlagia, velociraptor-like dinosaurs which likely lived covered in feathers."
  Knock it off with the ambiguous click-bait titles, Reuters. You're better than that. >
  
  Used to be better than that. >
  
  For dinosaurs, is there a taxonomy-based meaning for "raptor?" (as opposed to things like an allosaurus or a T-rex or other non-raptor names).  If not, is there some sort of size limit before it stops being a dinosaur raptor and starts being some other name, or part of the T-Rex family or something? >
  
  Raptor is informal; the family is largely Dromaeosauridae. Lots in this family are called raptors (in their name), lots aren’t. Raptor itself means “snatching/seizing” and the clade Maniraptor, of which Dromaeosaurids are a part, references the shared feature of their hands/wrist structures. >
  
  Megaraptorids however are not Dromaeosaurs, being closer to either the Allosauroid Neovenator, the ceratosaur Noasaurus, basal Tyrannosaurs (e.g Proceratosaurus) or the base of Coelorosauria (e.g Ornitholestes). It is not yet agreed where Megaraptorids go. >
  
  No photos, no artist's rendering. If you care about that kind of thing I mean... >
  
  
  Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction.
  Fossils of megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur that inhabited parts of South America during the Cretaceous period some 70 million years ago, were found in sizes up to 10 meters long, according to the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
  "We were missing a piece," Marcelo Leppe, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), told Reuters. "We knew where there were large mammals, there would also be large carnivores, but we hadn't found them yet." >
  
  “Jan 16 (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction.
  Fossils of megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur that inhabited parts of South America during the Cretaceous period some 70 million years ago, were found in sizes up to 10 meters long, according to the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.” >
  
  
  were found in sizes up to 10 meters long
  
  Hahah JFC what a terrifying thought. Running through the Amazon with one of these things chasing you through the trees. >
  
  A giant angry chicken the length of a bus.