What did velociraptors eat?

Velociraptor was a carnivore that hunted and scavenged for food. "It spent the vast majority of the time eating small things," which likely included reptiles, amphibians, insects, small dinosaurs and mammals, said David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. read more

Actually velociraptors did not eat everything. It ate anything from small lizards to medium sized hadrosaurids (duckbills). Velociraptors would have had to avoid Tarbosaurus. read more

The word velociraptor actually means speedy thief, so any animals that were not fast enough to get away were considered fair game. This dinosaur could grow up to 6.8 feet in length and was approximately 1.6 feet tall at the hips. read more