{"product_id":"book-hl5r","title":"The Velociraptor: The History of the Popular but Misunderstood Dinosaur Genus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe massively popular 1990 novel \u003cem\u003eJurassic Park \u003c\/em\u003eby Michael Crichton and its subsequent movie adaptations led to a huge resurgence in interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world. That interest continues to the present day, even though most of the dinosaurs in \u003cem\u003eJurassic Park\u003c\/em\u003e weren't actually from the Jurassic period. Triceratops, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eRex and the huge sauropods such as \u003cem\u003eBrachiosaurus\u003c\/em\u003e that feature in the book and movies all actually belong to the Late Cretaceous period, more than 40 million years after the end of the Jurassic. Regardless, the movie made certain kinds of dinosaurs instantly recognizable, even if associated with the wrong era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to the movie, there has been some unwitting confusion over the identity of the Velociraptor, and this confusion was due in large part to the fact the name sounds far more scary than the creature to which the name originally belonged. Moreover, the creature to which the label was applied in the novel and movie was actually a distant cousin named \u003cem\u003eDeinonychus\u003c\/em\u003e, but as the story goes, the author, Michael Crichton, thought \u003cem\u003e\"Velociraptor\"\u003c\/em\u003e sounded \"more dramatic.\" The actual \u003cem\u003eVelociraptor\u003c\/em\u003e lived not in the badlands of North America, but in the badlands of central-eastern Asia, and it was not nearly as intimidating as \u003cem\u003eDeinonychus\u003c\/em\u003e. In fact, the main species of genus \u003cem\u003eVelociraptor\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eVelociraptor mongoliensis\u003c\/em\u003e - was no bigger than a turkey. Thus, in a very real sense, the \u003cem\u003eVelociraptor\u003c\/em\u003e has taken on a larger-than-life reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49408301039920,"sku":"BDhl5r","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hl5r-Square-cover.jpg?v=1772118044","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hl5r","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}