Talk:Teryx/@comment-24018437-20200111172338/@comment-24018437-20200111173714

I'm aware. But dromaeosaur is the official name of the raptor family. Raptors originally refered to birds of prey, such as hawks and eagles. When Velociraptors became more well-known due their appearance in the Jurassic Park novels and movies, people began to use the term raptors a lot more to describe dromaeosaurs, including experts. Eventually, the term 'raptor' became used for a lot of small to medium-sized therapods, even if they weren't actually dromaeosaurs or 'true' raptors, such as the Troodon, Oviraptor and Compsognathus.

Appearance-wise, the Teryx looks like the stereotypical stylized dromaeosaur often used in fiction, minus the wings.