Megaraptor

Megaraptor

Creature

Group

Dinosaurs

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Solitary Aggressive

DLC

Valguero

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

No

Rider Weaponry

No

The Megaraptor is the ninth Creature Vote winner and to be introduced to ARK: Survival Ascended in the Valguero DLC later this year.

Appearance

Megaraptor is rather a big therapod similar size to the  Allosaurus with colorful feathers across all his body and spikes above his head It is also armed with long claws and curved teeth which is called ziphodont teeth similar to the Komodo dragon who shares with it the same stalking behavior.

Color Scheme and Regions

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Region 1:Unused

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Region 2:Unused

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Region 3:Unused

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Region 4:Unused

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Region 5:Unused

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Combat

Drops

Harvest

•  Meat
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Notes

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Megaraptor, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• Despite the Megaraptor being the ninth Creature Vote winner, it has received backlash by fans due to it being another theropod dinosaur instead of something else.
• Megaraptorans form a clade of predatory theropod dinosaurs with unclear and controversial affinities to other tetanuran theropods. The first genera to be described, the namesake Megaraptor itself, alongside Fukuiraptor, were both identified as unusually large dromaeosaurs, related to Velociraptor and Deinonychus, due to the scythe-like handclaws being misidentified as sickle claws. Between the 90s and the 2010s, when the clade was formally defined, various members of the group where included in wholly unrelated groupings; for example, Megaraptor was redefined in the 2000s to be a megalosauroid, distantly related to Megalosaurus and Spinosaurus, and Aerosteon was considered to be a relative of Allosaurus. Nevertheless, megaraptorans attained peak diversity at the end of the Cretaceous, particularly in Patagonia, in modern day Argentina, though they appeared elsewhere, becoming apex predators in many places and reaching massive sizes. For example, in North Africa, the potentially dubious genus Bahariasaurus, if classified as a megaraptoran, grew up to 12.2 meters long, almost the size of a T. rex.

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