For example, how do we know velociraptors we’re family and pack oriented? How do we know some were passive, and some were very aggressive predators? How do we know what foods they ate?
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Outside of behavior, there is another big question that you should be asking, “are our images of dinosaurs in any way similar to how they might have looked?”
There’s been been some interesting commentary on how if you are going only by skeletal remains, your ability to reconstruct the living animal and all it’s fatty fleshy bits is pretty damn limited.
Here’s an article discussing this: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/
Or another: https://maxs-blogo-saurus.com/2022/09/11/all-yesterdays-and-the-re-imagination-of-prehistoric-art/
And check out the *All Yesterdays* book or search for images from it, really interesting perspective
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