Months late, but I don't mind. The important part is - she's here!
This is one of my favorite designs in this line of figures, all of which are lovely in ways including but not limited to their attention to scientific accuracy (at the time - not the studio's fault Balaur turned out to have been a prehistoric bird rather than a dromaeosaurid). The colouring as I recall is inspired by Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), and I think suits a relatively small ambush predator that probably preyed on animals not a whole lot smaller than itself and was well equipped for grasping and restraining struggling prey despite not being much bigger. Kind of like a Goshawk.
Some of her joints are pretty stiff for now after a long time in the box, so I haven't taken full advantage of the poseability here, but it's already pretty neat.
Family reunion. :D
And with some a bit more distant relatives, too*. She's not to scale with anyone here, except the black nestling figures that are also from the Beasts of the Mesozoic line, and as I've understood are meant to work as babies for the adult raptor figures of any species (so they may not actually be distant relatives at all). Not that most of these guys would know, since they would never have met.
Dromaeosaurus lived in North America in the Campanian stage. Velociraptor, Microraptor, and Caudipteryx lived in Asia, and Deinonychus was extinct by then. Teeth assigned to Dromaeosaurus have been found in the Hell Creek formation, however, so some Dromaeosaurus might have still been around in the Maastrichtian stage and lived alongside Dakotaraptor (or might not, if those teeth belong to Acheroraptor instead).
(*On the left from top to bottom: Safari Ltd. Microraptor, Dinosaurs in the Wild Dakotaraptor, Favorite co. Velociraptor, Safari Ltd. Velociraptor and mini Velociraptor. In front of the Dromaeosaurus: the BotM nestlings [whose box is also in the background], Safari Ltd. Caudipteryx [not a dromaeosaurid/deinonychosaur, but it is a maniraptoran. Forgot to include my Beipiaosaurus that would in that case qualify, too], and Safari Ltd.'s newest Velociraptor. Farthest on the right is the Safari Ltd. Deinonychus. I think that's all my fully feathered raptors so far, other than the feathered JW raptor OCs Skye and Sunny [the latter of which could have been included since she's a customized Safari Ltd. Sinornithosaurus, but if her siblings don't get to go neither does she, lol.])
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