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Raptor was an informal name for the Dromaeosauridae, a specific family of dinosaurs, the type species of this family is Dromaeosaurus albertensis. Their main characteritics were a large brain, a biocular vision, a very bird-like body, mobile wirsts on (not always) long arms and clawed hands, pennaceous feathers and remiges on the arms, and an enlarged scikle claw on the second toe of each foot, they were probaby effective active hunters. The size range in the species on this group varied from 50 centimeters to 7 meters or more. One specific type was the Velociraptor.
Professor Saurian used raptors as his servants. (COMIC: Extinction Event)
A species of raptor was among the species placed aboard the Silurian Ark to repopulate the Earth with after the catastrophe the Silurians incorrectly predicted had passed. When Solomon came aboard the Ark, he was cornered and attacked by three raptors, which badly mutilated his legs before he was saved by two robots.
In the 24th century, when the Eleventh Doctor and his companions came aboard the Silurian Ark, John Riddell and Amy Pond kept several attacking raptors out of the Ark's control room, using electric tranquilisers to knock them out. In this episode the CGI model of the Raptors is the one the Mill used in the TV show Primeval. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
