Naturalist Charles Pickering was the librarian and a curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1843, he traveled to Africa and India to research human races. In 1848, Pickering published Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution, which enumerated eleven races.
It lived from 98 to 83 million years ago, separating itself from the Velociraptor by roughly 10 million years. You might say it's an ancestor of the actual Velociraptor, even though the original specie of raptor was almost the size of modern chicken and the Achillobator was roughly 1 ft taller than the average person.
Thanks to Jurassic Park and the subsequent movies, the world has a pretty solid idea about what the dinosaurs looked like. And when it comes to the velociraptors, the image in our heads are of horse-sized reptile-looking beasts with sharp fangs and deadly claws. But apparently thatâs totally wrong. Jurassic Worldâs palaeontology consultant, Jack Horner, told Metro.co.uk that the raptors were actually supposed to have feathers.