[Deinonychus] is usually considered a small dinosaur. But the largest individual was an eleven-foot-long animal whose head approached half a yard long, and was of male-timber-wolf mass. If alive today it would be considered a big predator.
Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 367
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