Christie’s to Sell a Dinosaur That Inspired the ‘Jurassic Park’ Raptor - The New York Times

The auction house says this is the first-ever sale of a Deinonychus, the species on which the ‘velociraptor’ in the 1993 movie was based.

Meeting Hector at about four feet tall and 10 feet long, with its tapered tail is not like meeting the 13-foot-tall Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago. Hyslop compares it to the experience of meeting… [+1490 chars]

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