Editing Velociraptor (section)

===Scavenging behavior===
In 2010, Hone and colleagues published a paper on their 2008 discovery of shed teeth of what they believed to be a ''Velociraptor'' near a tooth-marked jaw bone of what they believed to be a ''Protoceratops'' in the Bayan Mandahu Formation. The authors concluded that the find represented "late-stage carcass consumption by ''Velociraptor''" as the predator would have eaten other parts of a freshly killed ''Protoceratops'' before biting in the jaw area. The evidence was seen as supporting the inference from the "Fighting Dinosaurs" fossil that ''Protoceratops'' was part of the diet of ''Velociraptor''.<ref name="Hone2010">{{Cite journal |last1=Hone |first1=David |last2=Choiniere |first2=Jonah |last3=Sullivan |first3=Corwin |last4=Xu |first4=Xing |last5=Pittman |first5=Michael |last6=Tan |first6=Qingwei |year=2010 |title=New evidence for a trophic relationship between the dinosaurs ''Velociraptor'' and ''Protoceratops'' |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=291 |issue=3–4 |pages=488–492 |bibcode=2010PPP...291..488H |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.028}}</ref>

In 2012, Hone and colleagues published a paper that described a ''Velociraptor'' specimen with a long bone of an [[azhdarchid]] [[pterosaur]] in its gut. This was interpreted as showing scavenging behaviour.<ref name=hone2012>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hone | first1 = D. | last2 = Tsuihiji | first2 = T. | last3 = Watabe | first3 = M. | last4 = Tsogtbaatr | first4 = K. | title = Pterosaurs as a food source for small dromaeosaurs | doi = 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.021 | journal = Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | volume = 331–332 | page = 27 | year = 2012 | bibcode = 2012PPP...331...27H }}</ref>

In a 2024 study by Tse, Miller, and Pittman et al., focusing on the skull morphology and bite forces of various dromaeosaurids, it was discovered that ''Velociraptor'' had high bite force resistance compared to other dromaeosaurids such as ''Dromaeosaurus'' itself and ''Deinonychus'', the latter of which was much larger. It is theorized by the authors that high bite force resistance was an adaptation towards obtaining food through scavenging more often than through active predation in ''Velociraptor''.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1186/s12862-024-02222-5 | doi-access=free | title=Morphological disparity and structural performance of the dromaeosaurid skull informs ecology and evolutionary history | date=2024 | last1=Tse | first1=Yuen Ting | last2=Miller | first2=Case Vincent | last3=Pittman | first3=Michael | journal=BMC Ecology and Evolution | volume=24 | issue=1 | page=39 | pmid=38622512 | pmc=11020771 | bibcode=2024BMCEE..24...39T }}</ref>