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MICRORAPTOR
>Name Meaning: "Small Thief"
>Habitat: China
>Length: 2.5 ft (77 cm)
>Weight: 3.1 lbs (1.4 kg)
>Stance: Bipedal
>Diet: Carnivore
>Age: Cretaceous
Microraptor is a Dromaeosaurid theropod from the Cretaceous of China, living around 120 million years ago. Microraptor is notable for it's four wings
We know Microraptor to have had crow-like colouring in their feathers, due to microscopic structures in their fossil that determine colour.
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JAKAPIL
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