The old primeval site confirms that the season 2 raptors were based on Deinonychus antirrhopus web.archive.org/web/20080410050547/primeval.tv/creatures.php?c=0 The season 3 Raptors seem to be called Velociraptors in every material related to season 3, such as the old game from the primeval website cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/512499736515706894/601389350625869844/image.png Nigel also calls the raptor Velociraptor which is kinda movie logic 101 for "it is a velociraptor" and then the canon season 3 novel "fire and water" also has Raptors which it refers to as Velociraptors. The season 4 one is also perhaps Velociraptor given how the scene with it takes place in the cretaceous forest from season 3. The season 5 one remains a mystery. Weirdly it doesn't seem to use the season 4 raptor model because apart from the lacking quills, it has a weird "bulge" (tumour I guess?) on the top of its head which no other raptor model in the series has ever had...
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@@flightlesslord2688 everyone's guess basically. Good idea indeed. But I believe it may have been meant to be a different species at least? The presence of the dome is bothering.
They’re probably just meant to be generic raptors, but if I *HAD* to guess, I’d probably say the original raptors and the adults in Seasons 3 and 4 are Deinonychus, due to the size and build. They seem a bit lightly built to be Utahraptor, plus that species also appears in New World, looking totally different from these raptors. They can’t be Dakotaraptor, as it wasn’t discovered while Primeval was on the air. They *COULD* be Achillobator, but most likely not, since it wasn’t nearly as well known as it is today. And they surely can’t be Dromaeosaurus itself, as that species is around the same size as the real life Velociraptor.
Tbh, I can’t strike Primeval for the rattle feathers as it is an amazing design choice and at least most of the times the raptors are shown, their pronation isn’t all that prominent
really i thought that since Primeval's raptors are 5 feet high and between 2.5 to 3 meters in length it could be either Deinonychus or possibly Pyroraptor
I like how the other animals aren't just fighting each other, I mean yeah they biting and yelling but their tolerating each other because they know this isn't their own territory, so they rather tolerate then fight.
my only issue with this design was the fact they still had pronated wrists in 2007, lack of prominent feathers can be forgiven, but the wrists honestly have no excuse, oh yeah and the fact they replaced their sounds with Jurassic park raptor sounds later on. But whatever great raptor regardless
The biggest problem I have with all of the movies showing tranquilized animals are how the dart is always filled with the right amount of the right agent. Time travel might be easier.
Land Before Time 75 the Dinosaur's from Jurassic Park are not the real Dinosaur's. There mutant monster's. The real Prehistoric Creature's where living Creature's with heart's.
I loved these Raptors, I mean, they are amazing, I enjoyed a lot how these creatures developed with their environment and their designs were awesome. I personally found really cool the quills that raised depending on the mood of the raptor, that were used to intimidate and indicate it entered in an alert statement. Anyways I got a bit disappointed when Nigel Marvin called it "Velociraptor" because I tought this series had the perfect chance to correct the mistake with the species that the Jurassic Park/World franchise still having.
@@leonardomartinez955 Actually, acording to the website of the series, the raptors who we seen in season 2 are deinonychus, the season 3 and 4 ones are the velociraptor and the one in season 5 is a mistery
@@leonardomartinez955 I tried to find "it in the primeval website" but I couldn't access to the creatures information so I could only confirm it by fan sites in Google which says that some of the stuff of the series mentioned the species of the raptors in season 2 as a Deinonychus, and I couldn't even find a reliable site to confirm the species seen in series 5
Come to think of it, outside of Saurian, this is probably the only other representation in media that went with Roach and Brinkman's hypothesis for dromaeosaurids.
@@r.k845 The interpretation that suggests that dromaeosaurid assemblages (at least Deinonychus) weren't pack hunters, but more like Komodo dragon-style carcass mobbing
The season 2 raptor will always be the best, the biggest version of the primeval raptors with the best calls, if there is ever a reboot and they use the raptors it has to be the season 2 one
This was the first dinosaur we ever saw in the entire primeval show, pteranadon and mosasaurs don't count. Also from the shape of the skull the raptors from season 2 episode 1, they are deinonychus
I've got a question. Why did the adult Deinonychus eat the juvenile one? In the show, they say: "Yeah, call your daddy." I think an answer would be that it hadn't eaten for a while in that mall. Edit: This is one of my favorite Raptor designs, the feather rattles, the bird sounds, and its movements. Pretty cool creature!
I saw in google wiki of the primeval raptors it says the male raptors have much more higher metabolism and far more aggressive and the raptor eating the baby is actually a reference from the Jurassic park novel which might explain the male raptor eating the baby. And I have one theory that maybe the male raptor isn’t a daddy maybe it was just a male raptor with no mate this could actually explain a lot of why the male raptor ate the baby.
There where some Dinosaur's that where given the name Raptor just like the Uhutarapter, Megarapter and Microrapter. And that does show a difference between them especially in the fossil record too.
Velociraptor: guys I’m velociraptor not baby. Who the hell are you Deinonychus: you don’t look like my son Velociraptor: no i’m tied up too be Some type of Deinonychus: well I’m gonna eat you Velociraptor: what are you doing no please don’t eat me Deinonychus: gulp Velociraptor: dead x-x
Everyone always talks about the Jurassic Park/World raptors as well as the raptors from Disney’s most underrated film, Dinosaur, But nobody talks about the raptors from Primeval.
Velociraptor was the size of a turkey in real life, speed of a poodle, wasn’t able to be like the Indoraptor, and less intelligent then a chimpanzee, despite the obvious lack of any feathers and possibly the wrong wrist position, Velociraptor had condor-like feathering all over its body, so by this animals size and appearance, this is most likely Deinonychus or Dromaeosaurus, however, dromaeosaurs were most likely not from Argentina or Africa, also, STOP USING VELOCIRAPTOR SOUNDS FROM JURASSIC PARK, although this would be an exception for Paw Patrol if they’re allowed to use them, that Dino Ranch series on Disney Junior and Disney, and the obvious Jurassic park franchise
RIP lil baby raptor.Also,Was the adult raptor starving,Or the baby wasnt related or something?Cuz if both applied,I would see no reason to kill off offspring
2:36 ---- 8:56 i think this is a dowgrade....I mean, not that the primeval raptor's design was great, but it was decent for not being a copy of the JP raptor and being different, The first visual is very reminiscent of a bird, albeit incorrect. You saw it as if it were a bird by its movements, you saw that it was very different from a traditional media raptor, its feathers left this raptor charming, But in that last design, man, it looks like they got some kind of shame on the ancient raptor's feathers, completely stripped the feathers and made it really rough, it's so generic, It's just no longer generic because of the shape of its skull, it's still quite different from the JP raptor's skull. Needless to say about the sound effects, right? They replaced their screams and clucks with the sounds of Jurassic park velociraptors and that was extremely bad.
