Mesopredator · carnivore · crepuscular
Utahraptor
Utahraptor, meaning "Utah's predator," was a large, feathered carnivorous theropod dinosaur that roamed what is now the United States during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 139 to 135 million years ago. First described in 1993 by paleontologist James Kirkland and colleagues, the type species, Utahraptor ostrommaysi, was based on fossils discovered in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Over time, additional specimens, including parts of the skull and skeletons of younger individuals, have been uncovered, providing a clearer picture of this formidable predator.
Contract
- Diet
- carnivore
- Activity
- crepuscular
- Social
- pack
- Group
- 1–4
- Growth
- 4.0 h
- Overpack
- never
Home ground
Should not settle
How this life is scored
Weights are derived from what the animal is, never templated — which is why no two species on this roster score the same way.
Evolutionary state
Recomputed from every completed life on the server. This section moves on its own.
GENERATION 1 · 0 LIVES ON RECORD · 0/40 TOWARD NEXT · DIVERGENCE 0.000
Current population: indistinguishable from founding stock.
Growth
Hatch to adult is 4.0 h — 6 in-game days on North Point's clock, where one day is 40 real minutes. Parental dependency is not counted as growth — an animal that survived alone skipped part of its species' life, and the ontogeny term is what notices.
hatchling
0.57 h
0.46 h parental
juvenile
1.03 h
0.23 h parental
subadult
1.26 h
adult
1.14 h
Range & ecology
Home range
Where this species concentrates on the map — from its biome affinity, not an even scatter. Ranges overlap where the biomes do.
Predation
Hunts
Nothing on the map hunts a healthy adult. This is an apex.
Social system Ranked Pack
A persistent hierarchy of a few cooperative hunters. Rank sets the feeding order and, in some seasons, who breeds. The pack is only as strong as its discipline.
Roles in the group
What it creates
- Rank is visible and contestable — a subordinate can challenge up.
- Feeding order is enforced; jumping it starts a fight.
- A coordinated pack takes prey no single member could.
✦ Your place in the line is everything, and the line can change.
Signature abilities
Extracted from the shipped binary. A profile may not describe a move the game does not have.
Profile clauses
- The heavy raptor — pounces and pins with the sickle claw. A coordinated pack brings down animals far above its own weight.
Reference material
As the largest member of the Dromaeosauridae family, Utahraptor measured about 6 to 7 meters (20 to 23 feet) long and weighed around 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds). Its sturdy build and distinctive features made it a prominent figure both in popular culture and scientific research. Its jaws were lined with small, serrated teeth, working in tandem with a large, curved claw on its second toe, which it used effectively to kill prey. Its skull was boxy and elongated, similar to other dromaeosaurs like Velociraptor. Adapted for hunting, Utahraptor likely ambushed its prey - such as ankylosaurs and iguanodonts - based on evidence from its leg structure, which suggests it relied on sudden strikes rather than pursuit. Fossil evidence of multiple individuals of different ages indicates that Utahraptor was extremely social living in large family groups spread out loosely across multiple overlapping territories. Caring for its young long after hatching.