What did velociraptors eat?

Answer 1

Actually velociraptors did not eat everything. It ate anything from small lizards to medium sized hadrosaurids (duckbills). Velociraptors would have had to avoid Tarbosaurus. Velociraptors also had great hunting ability, one of their great tactics was speed. They were fast movers because they didn't have to breath out. Their breath seeped in through their body and went into small pours in the bones which seeped out of the skin allowing Velociraptor to run at 40 mph. Velociraptors also had a 3 1/2 in long claw that was extended to 5 in with it's sheath. This claw may have been used for piercing the throat, rather than for disemboweling. This would be a much more lethal approach than any of today's raptors practice.

Another perspective:

Scientists believe that velociraptors were carnivores(meat eaters). They probably fed on: carrion (dead animals), kills that they could take away from other animals, and anything else that they could run down and kill.

Their diet must have consisted of a wide variety of animals because they really were very fast on their feet, had teeth that would have been very handy for holding and tearing, and they had a comparatively large, exaggerated claw (approximately 13cm), on each of their middle toes. These claws might have been used in piercing or ripping their prey and in self defense. There is also speculation that they may have hunted in packs, using cooperative techniques. If this is true, they could probably have preyed on animals significantly larger than themselves.

With some adjustments made for the differences in size and lack of flight ability, a comparison of the diets of owls and eagles (modern raptors), might inspire visions of what velociraptors ate. They may well have eaten mostly mammals (all very small then), reptiles, amphibians, and other dinosaurs, smaller and/or slower than themselves.

It should also be noted that: the actual animals, while they could still have ruined your day, were less imposing than what was depicted in the Movie, Jurassic Park. Further, the movie animals were not velociraptors at all, but of a totally different genus, probably modeled from Deinonychus. The real velociraptors (Velociraptor mongoliensis) sported feathers and were smaller and lighter (turkey size) than those depicted in the movie.

Answer 2

They eat meat