Dinosaur
Mei
Mei is famous for a fossil preserved in an avian-like sleeping posture.
Mei is famous for a fossil preserved in an avian-like sleeping posture. The tucked head and folded body provide a rare glimpse of a pose that is usually missing from a dinosaur skeleton.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Mei at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Its feeding structures are interpreted as adapted to taking animal prey.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Troodontidae
- Troodontidae
Beyond the game
The real Mei
Mei is famous for a fossil preserved in an avian-like sleeping posture. The tucked head and folded body provide a rare glimpse of a pose that is usually missing from a dinosaur skeleton.
The tucked head and folded body resemble resting postures in birds. This rare fossil pose offers evidence about behaviour as well as the bones of a small dinosaur.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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