Jurassic Park’s fearsome predator was really no bigger than a turkey

VELOCIRAPTOR, star of the Jurassic Park movies, may have resembled a turkey with attitude more than a monster dinosaur, new research suggests.

The real-life creature was much smaller than its film version — and now scientists have established it had feathers.

Velociraptor, which lived 70-80 million years ago, was a two-legged predator dinosaur that stood about one metre tall and weighed around 14 kilograms.