No, No, No, you've got it all wrong, guys! It was just a prank played by the velociraptor's dino friends. They dropped him in a tar pit, then covered him in feathers... The poor guy suffocated from the tar (their brains weren't big enough to forsee that and take precautions) and was fossilized in that sad state. Rosh <-- Gotta take the other side. =)