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Description
Microraptor zhaoianus
Named by Xu Xing and colleagues, 2000
Diet: Carnivore and Inscetivore (Prey included insects, small lizards, fish, small mammals such as Liaoconodon, and birds such as Sinornis and Longipteryx as evidence in the stomach show)
Type: Dromaeosaurid (Microraptorian) theropod dinosaur.
Size: 1.38 to 2.72 feet (42 to 83 centimeters) long and 2.2 lb.
Region: Asia (Liaoning Province China)
Age: Early Cretaceous (122 to 120.3 million BC; Early Aptian)
Enemies/Rivals: Large ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, such as the 33-foot (10-meter) Sinotyrannus (a proceratosaurid basal tyrannosauroid); predatory pterosaurs; other feathered theropods such as Confuciusornis and Jeholornis to compete for flight.
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside Their World (vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/w… )
Info: The so-called "four-winged" dinosaur, Microraptor is not an ancestor to modern-day birds (it is a member of the dromaeosaur family, or "raptors", which included the famous Velociraptor and had a sickle-like toe claw), but its discovery in the 2000's has revelutionized our understanding of the origin of birds and their evolutionary relationship with dinosaurs. Living in the forested tree's of Early Cretaceous Liaoning, China (Jiufotang Formation), Microraptor had flight wing feathers on its forelimbs and hindlimbs, that would've enabled to glide from tree to tree, or even, as scientists speculate, fly.

Note: Based on . Coloration based on a crow's as well as the Archaeopteryx I already did (Sorta) as new discoveries in 2012 show that the feather colors were black.

Sadly this (and perhaps Psittacosaurus) is the only WWD animal that's from the Jehol Biota. Yeah! No Sinornithosaurus! No Caudipteryx! No Sinosauropteryx! No Yutyrannus! No Dilong! No Beipiaosaurus! No Tianyuraptor! No Liaoningosaurus! No Confuciusornis! No Jeholornis! No Sinovenator! No Mei! No Sinocalliopteryx! No Repenomamus! No Eomaia! No Sinodelphys! Nothing!
If WWD gets rebooted, they should make an episode set in either the Yixian Formation, or in Microraptor's case, Jiufotang Formation.

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Description
Microraptor zhaoianus
Named by Xu Xing and colleagues, 2000
Diet: Carnivore and Inscetivore (Prey included insects, small lizards, fish, small mammals such as Liaoconodon, and birds such as Sinornis and Longipteryx as evidence in the stomach show)
Type: Dromaeosaurid (Microraptorian) theropod dinosaur.
Size: 1.38 to 2.72 feet (42 to 83 centimeters) long and 2.2 lb.
Region: Asia (Liaoning Province China)
Age: Early Cretaceous (122 to 120.3 million BC; Early Aptian)
Enemies/Rivals: Large ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, such as the 33-foot (10-meter) Sinotyrannus (a proceratosaurid basal tyrannosauroid); predatory pterosaurs; other feathered theropods such as Confuciusornis and Jeholornis to compete for flight.
Episode: Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside Their World (vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/w… )
Info: The so-called "four-winged" dinosaur, Microraptor is not an ancestor to modern-day birds (it is a member of the dromaeosaur family, or "raptors", which included the famous Velociraptor and had a sickle-like toe claw), but its discovery in the 2000's has revelutionized our understanding of the origin of birds and their evolutionary relationship with dinosaurs. Living in the forested tree's of Early Cretaceous Liaoning, China (Jiufotang Formation), Microraptor had flight wing feathers on its forelimbs and hindlimbs, that would've enabled to glide from tree to tree, or even, as scientists speculate, fly.

Note: Based on . Coloration based on a crow's as well as the Archaeopteryx I already did (Sorta) as new discoveries in 2012 show that the feather colors were black.

Sadly this (and perhaps Psittacosaurus) is the only WWD animal that's from the Jehol Biota. Yeah! No Sinornithosaurus! No Caudipteryx! No Sinosauropteryx! No Yutyrannus! No Dilong! No Beipiaosaurus! No Tianyuraptor! No Liaoningosaurus! No Confuciusornis! No Jeholornis! No Sinovenator! No Mei! No Sinocalliopteryx! No Repenomamus! No Eomaia! No Sinodelphys! Nothing!
If WWD gets rebooted, they should make an episode set in either the Yixian Formation, or in Microraptor's case, Jiufotang Formation.

Requested by

Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC