What did the velociraptor from Jurassic Park and the actual velociraptor look like?

Answer 1

The two looked very different. In Jurassic Park the velociraptors were actually based on a closely related but larger dinosaur named Deinonychus, which had originally been classified as another species of velociraptor. In the movie the "velociraptors" are scaly creatures about six feet tall and fifteen or so feet long with flexible hands, whiplike tails, and a large claw elevated on the inner toe.

The actual velociraptor was much smaller, closer in size to a turkey and had feathers rather than scales, though this was not known when Jurassic Park was made. The feathers on the arms were large and well developed, resembling the flight feathers of a bird. The tail of velociraptor was stiffer than its depiction in the movie. Additionally, velociraptor and all carnivorous dinosaurs could not rotate their wrists and, in a resting position carried their "palms" facing inward rather than downward. The matter of the inner toe however is accurate. Overall, velociraptor would have looked like a very strange bird. Deinonychus, on which the movie "raptors" were based, probably looked quite similar only larger and perhaps differently colored.