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Gongburaptor
Gongburaptor
Description: midsize predatory theropod
Meaning: Chinese Thief
Species: G. boydi
Family: Deinonychosauria, Velociraptorinae
Length: 15-20 feet
Lifestyle: Hunter
Range: Eurasia

Distinguishing features: The fastest dinosaur on the planet, Gongburaptor is a fast running pack hunter with cheetah-like spots covering a sand yellow coat of feathers. Large and powerful, adults can run as fast as 75 miles an hour over short distances. Adult males and females are impossible to tell apart save for the male’s larger and more elaborate crests and wattles. Both sexes have 16 inch-long killing claws on their feet. Nomadic with no real defined territory unless nesting, Gongburaptor travels alone or in small sibling groups and mated pairs, stalking the grasslands of Eurasia in search of suitable prey. Males and females are monogamous, pairing for life and laying in between 5 and 12 eggs per season in nests scraped out of the dirt and filled with vegetation. Hatchlings emerge from the eggs after a period of 84 days, blind and undeveloped looking. Only about a third to half hatch with the remaining eggs providing a first nutritious meal for the relatively helpless youngsters. The young grow quickly, accompanying their parents on hunts about four months after birth. The young leave their mother when they reach adolescence at three years.

Habits and Habitat: Gongburaptors prefer the open plains and steppes, where a burst of speed will allow them to take down the fastest ornithomimids, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and oviraptors. Packs run these down with a burst of speed from a hidden location, pursuing them until they either collapse from exhaustion or are slashed to death by the predators themselves. When they feed, each member of the pack takes enough for itself, its mate and its children from the kill. Different parts of a kill are divided equally among pack members allowing everyone from newborn hatchlings, to elderly adults to feed without squabbling. Due to their lighter build however, they sometimes are chased off kills by stronger raptors or giant tyrannosaurs such as the Plains-sprinter and Vastatotyrannus. Thus, they have to make a kill more often than most other dromaeosaurids.

Description
Gongburaptor
Gongburaptor
Description: midsize predatory theropod
Meaning: Chinese Thief
Species: G. boydi
Family: Deinonychosauria, Velociraptorinae
Length: 15-20 feet
Lifestyle: Hunter
Range: Eurasia

Distinguishing features: The fastest dinosaur on the planet, Gongburaptor is a fast running pack hunter with cheetah-like spots covering a sand yellow coat of feathers. Large and powerful, adults can run as fast as 75 miles an hour over short distances. Adult males and females are impossible to tell apart save for the male’s larger and more elaborate crests and wattles. Both sexes have 16 inch-long killing claws on their feet. Nomadic with no real defined territory unless nesting, Gongburaptor travels alone or in small sibling groups and mated pairs, stalking the grasslands of Eurasia in search of suitable prey. Males and females are monogamous, pairing for life and laying in between 5 and 12 eggs per season in nests scraped out of the dirt and filled with vegetation. Hatchlings emerge from the eggs after a period of 84 days, blind and undeveloped looking. Only about a third to half hatch with the remaining eggs providing a first nutritious meal for the relatively helpless youngsters. The young grow quickly, accompanying their parents on hunts about four months after birth. The young leave their mother when they reach adolescence at three years.

Habits and Habitat: Gongburaptors prefer the open plains and steppes, where a burst of speed will allow them to take down the fastest ornithomimids, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and oviraptors. Packs run these down with a burst of speed from a hidden location, pursuing them until they either collapse from exhaustion or are slashed to death by the predators themselves. When they feed, each member of the pack takes enough for itself, its mate and its children from the kill. Different parts of a kill are divided equally among pack members allowing everyone from newborn hatchlings, to elderly adults to feed without squabbling. Due to their lighter build however, they sometimes are chased off kills by stronger raptors or giant tyrannosaurs such as the Plains-sprinter and Vastatotyrannus. Thus, they have to make a kill more often than most other dromaeosaurids.