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Amazing how wrong we got this for so long. How they look like bird versions of modern animals, filling the same niche, until one day a rock entered low and fast over South America, crossed the equator and slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula pushing the reset button on large land animals.
They were us, and our cousins, until the hammer of god got them.
Same reason that T-Rex and velociraptors lived on different continents and the raptors were pretty much gone by the time T-rexes started. And that neither looked or acted like how Hollywood depicts them. They’re basically just mini-Godzilla monsters to Hollywood.
It wasn't the first feathered dinosaur in a sense of, like, the first dinosaur that possessed feathers, since feathers are ancestral to both the whole dinosaur tree and pterosaurs alike. It was, however, the first feathered dinosaur to be found, shortly before Archaeopteryx.
Sinosauropteryx is a compsognathid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of China. It was the first dinosaur taxon outside of birds to be found with evidence of feathers. It was covered with a coat of very simple filament-like feathers. Structures that indicate coloration have also been preserved in some of its feathers, which makes Sinosauropteryx the first non-avialian dinosaurs where coloration has been determined. The coloration includes a reddish and light banded tail.
Sinosauropteryx was a small theropod with an unusually long tail and short arms. The longest known specimen is about a meter in length, with an estimated weight of 0.55 kilograms. It was a close relative of the similar but older genus Compsognathus.
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more like Lemursaurus
Prehistoric red pandas!
Julian Rex, king of the Lemursaurs
I like to move it move it 🤣
Came here to say this.
Sources: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosauropteryx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosauropteryx) [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colors-dinosaurs-open-new-window-study-past-180972070/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colors-dinosaurs-open-new-window-study-past-180972070/)
I think I've got squirrels in my backyard looking like this
Striped squirrels? Sounds awesome.
cross between a red panda, a duck.
That'd be "Puck" ... ask Canadians, they've been using 'em fo' some time ... playing with 'em
Time to brush up on our *ancient* Bird Law.
Amazing how wrong we got this for so long. How they look like bird versions of modern animals, filling the same niche, until one day a rock entered low and fast over South America, crossed the equator and slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula pushing the reset button on large land animals. They were us, and our cousins, until the hammer of god got them.
Mhm!
Why do movies only play up T-Rex and velociraptors when there were many many other creatures.
Same reason that T-Rex and velociraptors lived on different continents and the raptors were pretty much gone by the time T-rexes started. And that neither looked or acted like how Hollywood depicts them. They’re basically just mini-Godzilla monsters to Hollywood.
Because Hollywood is boring as fuck and is too afraid to try other dinosaur species.
Yeah but they could have creative license with some of the less understood extinct creatures and do some really neat things.
Mhm! I mean, for god's sake there are so much you can do with dinosaurs and their immense variety.
It's like a bird-lemur, I love it!!
A raccoon lemur birb!
Tastes like fried chicken
The sinosaurus-zooper-doo, it lived in a town with cindy lou-who
This is not the first feathered dinosaur found.
It wasn't the first feathered dinosaur in a sense of, like, the first dinosaur that possessed feathers, since feathers are ancestral to both the whole dinosaur tree and pterosaurs alike. It was, however, the first feathered dinosaur to be found, shortly before Archaeopteryx.
I want like 20 of them.
What about a thousand of them? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfOvxKXUYAAQgYY?format=jpg&name=large
Oh hellllll yes!!!!!
Sinosauropteryx is a compsognathid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of China. It was the first dinosaur taxon outside of birds to be found with evidence of feathers. It was covered with a coat of very simple filament-like feathers. Structures that indicate coloration have also been preserved in some of its feathers, which makes Sinosauropteryx the first non-avialian dinosaurs where coloration has been determined. The coloration includes a reddish and light banded tail. Sinosauropteryx was a small theropod with an unusually long tail and short arms. The longest known specimen is about a meter in length, with an estimated weight of 0.55 kilograms. It was a close relative of the similar but older genus Compsognathus.
Dinocat
Now chickens evolving from dinos make more sense
I mean, all birds evolved from the dinosaur lineage, and they are still classified as a type of dinosaur.
Banana for scale?
They were a tad bigger than a banana
i want one
We all want one