Venatosaurus
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Venatosaurus is a fictional species of dinosaur that appears in the 2005 Template:Kaiju Template:FilmC, King Kong.
Name
The name Venatosaurus means "hunter lizard"; venato being a Latin word that is an infliction of the word vēnātus, which means "hunting" or "to hunt."[1][2] The word saurus is derived from the ancient Greek word sauros (σαυροσ), meaning "lizard."
Apperance
Venatosaurus resembles a featherless dromaeosaurid dinosaur with pronated hands that appears to be slightly taller than Utahraptor, the largest discovered dromaeosaurid in real life. Despite having said to have come descended from Velociraptor, the shape of Venatosaurus' skull is closer in appearance to restorations of Deinonychus.
Origins
According to Peter Jackson, Venatosaurus is a descendant of Velociraptor that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and evolved isolated on Skull Island for millions of years.
History
King Kong (2005)
Upon spying on the herd of Brontosaurus in a valley, a pack of Venatosaurus went in for the attack. They chased them through the valley and across the side of a mountain, and caught the attention, and gunfire, of some humans that were among their prey.
References
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