[chongli]

Perhaps you're thinking of the creatures we saw in Jurassic Park? Yeah, those are somewhat inaccurate. Velociraptor, for example, was the size of a turkey and covered in feathers, with its long tail held upwards, like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#/media/File%3AV...

Yeah, basically a weird bird.

[samatman]

The velociraptors in the book, and to a lesser degree the movie, were modelled after Deinonychus.

Michael Crichton thought, correctly, that Velociraptor was a better name.

[PakG1]

No doubt. I still preferred the name Raptor to Gecko, too bad it couldn't stay that way.