Part one of term paper
Deinonychuses were vicious creatures that walked the earth about 100 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period. Deinonychus is Greek for deinos, “terrible”; onychos, “claw”, and is genus of small, bipedal, flesh-eating dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda, that lived during the Early Cretaceous period, which began about 13 ...

Part two of term paper
... with its tail rigidly stretched out behind for balance as it attacked its prey. The jaws of its relatively large head were equipped with large, jagged teeth. The three toes of the forelimbs were armed with long, curved claws, one of which earned the animal its name: the second toe bore a 5 in hook -shaped, retractable claw that must have been a formidable offensive weapon. Deinonychus is known from fossil remains found in south central Montana during the 1960’s. It was a carnivorous, bird-like ...