No one knows for sure why Velociraptor went extinct, but fossil evidence suggests that it died out about 70 million years ago near the end of the Cretaceous Period. The timing of their extinction came shortly before the onset of the KβT extinction, the global mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs and many other forms of life.
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