Neuquenraptor

What it was like

Neuquenraptor was a feathered two-legged hunter, a relative of the raptors. It is known from a foot with a large sickle-shaped claw and a few other bones. Some scientists think it may be the same animal as Unenlagia, found in the same rocks.

Its world

It lived about 94 to 86 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Portezuelo Formation, where it shared the land with the big predator Megaraptor and the giant titanosaur Futalognkosaurus.

How it was found

Novas and Pol named it in 2005. The type species is Neuquenraptor argentinus.