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Terrible Claw

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Deinonychus! This was my favorite dinosaur in the 1990s (although I used the "Velociraptor antirrhopus" moniker that Greg Paul gave it at the time). Given the role Deinonychus played in sparking the Dinosaur Renaissance and inspiring the Jurassic Park book (and subsequent movies) it's an icon all its own.

Edit February 2019: Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the naming of Deinonychus I give you a few more minor silhouette updates and... full lizard-style immobile lips. I've pretty much always supported this interpretation, but somehow convinced myself that they could be mobile enough (or the overbite was strong enough) that you didn't have to see the lip silhouettes in side view, so now I've fixed it.

Anyhow, I imagine this might spark some discussion, so have at!
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ScottHartman I paid for this download, but it looks like the high-resolution download appears to be the older reconstruction without the visible lips. Is there a way to get the high-resolution of the current version?