Giant velociraptor bigger than Jurassic Park imaginings discovered

When Jurassic Park introduced the world to the 6ft velociraptor, disdainful palaeontologists were quick to point out that the dinosaurs were actually about the size of turkeys.

Now a giant raptor even bigger than Michael Crichton’s imaginings has been discovered in South Korea, and it would have dwarfed both its real and fictional counterparts.

With a hip height of five foot nine inches, Fujianipus yingliangi would have towered over a 6ft tall human, while its 16ft length is almost three times as big as a usual velociraptor – about the length of the Jeep Wranglers used in Jurassic Park.

Dr Anthony Romilio, a palaeontologist from the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, said: “Imagine something like that coming at you at full speed.

“When people think of raptor dinosaurs, they most likely think of those in the Jurassic Park movies – human-sized, muscly, aggressive hunters.

“This raptor was around 5-metres-long with 1.8 metre-long legs, far exceeding the size of the raptors depicted in Jurassic Park.”