DAKOTARAPTOR LIVES!

[PaleoMatt]

They might need to wait a little longer to make a toy of this 'species':

https://peerj.com/preprints/1570/

Unless it's a dinosaur-trionychid hybrid, which sounds like something we might see in the Jurassic World sets!

Is Dakotaraptor still real then??

[Loxodon]

It is still a thing, yes, it was just some of the bones that were misidentified. It does mean that we should be skeptical about just how much we actually know about the animal though.

[CityRaptor]

So far it is still real. The holotype should however be re-examined.

DePalma, Robert A.; Burnham, David A.; Martin, Larry D.; Larson, Peter L.; Bakker, Robert T. (2015). "The First Giant Raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Hell Creek Formation.". Paleontological Contributions (14):
The holotype, PBMNH.P.10.113.T, was found in a sandstone layer of the upper Hell Creek Formation, dating from the late Maastrichtian. It consists of a partial skeleton, lacking the skull, of an adult individual. It contains a piece of a back vertebra, ten tail vertebrae, a furcula, both upper arm bones, both ulnae, both radii, the first and second right metacarpals, three claws of the left hand, a right thighbone, both shinbones, a left astragalus bone, a left calcaneum, the left second, third and fourth metatarsal, the right fourth metatarsal, and the second and third claw of the right foot. Apart from the remains of the holotype, in the site bones were discovered that also belonged to Dakotaraptor but which represented a more gracile morph. These included the specimens PBMNH.P.10.115.T: a right shinbone; PBMNH.P.10.118.T: a connected left astragalus and calcaneum; and KUVP 152429: a furcula. Additionally four isolated teeth were referred, specimens PBMNH.P.10.119.T, PBMNH.P.10.121.T, PBMNH.P.10.122.T, and PBMNH.P.10.124.T. These fossils are part of the collection of The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. Other referred fossils are NCSM 13170, a furcula, and KUVP 156045, an isolated tooth.

At least part of that sounnds like it belongs to a giant Dromaesaur. The miisidentified part so far is only the furcula.

[HD-man]

They might need to wait a little longer to make a toy of this 'species':

https://peerj.com/preprints/1570/

Unless it's a dinosaur-trionychid hybrid, which sounds like something we might see in the Jurassic World sets!

Is Dakotaraptor still real then??

Yes: https://www.facebook.com/jamesik1/posts/10153418289588370?pnref=story

[DinoLord]

Yeah, I feel that particular blogger overreacted somewhat. If you look elsewhere on tumblr the reactions are quite humorous (a lot of drawings of Dakotaraptor with turtle feet). Even though a few of the remains were misidentified it doesn't change the fact that there was a large dromaeosaurid in Hell Creek.