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• n  any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals

• Movies have loved the big prehistoric galoots ever since Winsor McCay animated his Gertie nearly a century ago, and Jurassic Park earned Hollywood's raptor attention when it topped .
• In Utah, paleontologists found bones of a real raptor, and it was the size of the movie's beast.
• Fuzzy raptor is the missing link that clinches the relationship.

• bird of prey
• raptorial bird

News & Articles

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• Assessing Raptor Pharmaceutical's Agreement With HealthCare Royalty Partners
  Assessing Raptor Pharmaceutical's Agreement With HealthCare Royalty Partners        
  June 14, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Raptor Pharmaceutical to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference
  NOVATO, Calif. -- Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. today announced that Julie Anne Smith, executive vice president, strategy and chief operating officer of Raptor, will present an overview of the company at ...
  June 12, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Raptor group offers summer tours
  The Raptor Education Group offers tours through the summer every Tuesday, Thursday and the second Saturday each month June through August.
  June 9, 2013 - Wausau Daily Herald

Quotes

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• Jay Triano in Montreal Gazette
  When the season ended last year,coach Jay Triano said, "he was one of the guys we said was a must as far as being a Toronto Raptor" in the future.
• Billy Idol in Earthtimes (press release)
  Of the collection's other new track, "New Future Weapon," Idol says, "I was reading about the new stealth fighter plane the Raptor, and I was struck by the ambivalence of the pilot talking about the enemy. Musically, it's got a bit of the...
• Paul Sereno in MercoPress
  This was a monster raptor that makes the Velociraptor look like kid's play,said Sereno, also a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. "At five meters long with a sickle-shaped claw, it was an amazing predator." "Normally you'd...