Dinosaur
Sinornithosaurus
Its discovery in 1999 expanded the evidence for feathers in non-avian dinosaurs.
Sinornithosaurus helped expand the evidence for feathers among non-bird dinosaurs.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Sinornithosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Dromaeosauridae
- Dromaeosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Liaoning
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Sinornithosaurus
This was a feathered dromaeosaurid. Finds from different layers of the Yixian Formation helped establish some of the early evidence that feathers were not limited to birds.
Its discovery in 1999 expanded the evidence for feathers in non-avian dinosaurs. Its findings are part of a series of discoveries that changed popular reconstructions. The plumage is incorporated because of the preserved evidence, not because all dinosaurs should be drawn the same.
This family includes the animals commonly called raptors, with a large claw on the second toe. Feathers are documented in its members; movie reconstructions are not a reliable guide to their actual size.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
Its discovery in 1999 expanded the evidence for feathers in non-avian dinosaurs. Its findings are part of a series of discoveries that changed popular reconstructions. The plumage is incorporated because of the preserved evidence, not because all dinosaurs should be drawn the same.
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- Sinornithosaurus
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- Sinornithosaurus
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- Dromaeosauridae
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- Living birds
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