Bones and Stones Decor: 427 Lawrence street in downtown Kelowna - Photographed November 29, 2010.

Owners Sandy and Bill McKay have proudly decorated the life-sized Velociraptor standing on the sidewalk outside Bones and Stones Decor on Lawrence street with a Santa Hat and Gift Bag to humorously say that "Even Raptors Enjoy Christmas." The enthusiastic couple work with paleontologists and artists to bring fossilized creatures embedded in stone with eye catching, pleasing displays. The shop's interior has natural light pouring in from huge northern faced windows which light up a stunning variety of sand stone sculptures, Ammonites, Fish Fossils, Orthoceras, Trilobites, Plant Fossils, minerals and museum quality crystals from all over the world. In particular I like one of the benches made of petrified wood from Arizona. Both of the owners have many adventures to talk about over coffee... the store is worth a visit and have collectible gifts in range of every budget.

Sandy and Bill McKay have spent the past 30 years joyfully traveling around the world collecting fossils, gems and semi precious stones to share with buyers and collectors in the Okanagan Valley.

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Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils of this species have been discovered in Mongolia. A second species, V. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia, China.

Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, the turkey-sized Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.

Velociraptor (commonly shortened to 'raptor') is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series. In the films it was shown with anatomical inaccuracies, including being much larger than it was in reality and without feathers. It is also well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons—the most of any dromaeosaurid. One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.

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