By: Mark Mancini | Updated: Mar 5, 2021
Velociraptor had a big sickle claw on the second toe of each foot that was likely used to pierce the skin and grip the flesh of prey. Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images
Velociraptor is linked to two of the most intriguing figures in paleontology: Roy Chapman Andrews and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska.
Often compared to Indiana Jones, Andrews was an American explorer known for his vivid field stories. The man s writings describe narrow escapes from death at the hands of wild dogs, injured whales and typhoons. (To say nothing of his cliff-related mishaps.)
Andrews became a bit of a celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, when he led a series of fossil-hunting expeditions through the Mongolian Gobi Desert.
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Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, has set his new HBO series in America. The Gilded Age, a 10-episode historical drama, takes place during the late 19th century. Filming took place in the Sleepy Hollow area in November.
According to an HBO release, the series is set in 1882 during a period of immense economic change; huge fortunes were made in the era coined The Gilded Age.
Many of those fortunes were used to build lavish estates in the Hudson Valley, including today s Sleepy Hollow Country Club which began life in 1893 as a 75-room mansion for a Vanderbilt and the ultimate Gilded Age spread, Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.