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Microraptor Facts
Microraptor was a tiny feathered dinosaur with wings on both its arms and legs — one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found.
- Microraptor was a small four-winged dinosaur about the size of a crow.
- The four-winged Microraptor could probably glide effectively between trees.
- Microraptor, whose name means 'small thief', roamed China during the Early Cretaceous; it was a carnivore — had flight feathers on all four limbs.
- The Early Cretaceous carnivore Graciliraptor ('graceful thief') lived in what is now China — a slender microraptorine.
- Microraptor was a tiny dinosaur with feathers on all four limbs.
- Microraptor means 'tiny thief'.
- Microraptor had feathered wings on both its arms and legs.
- Microraptor is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found.
- Microraptor's asymmetrical flight feathers suggest it was capable of gliding or limited flight.
- Microraptor was a carnivore theropod from the Early Cretaceous.
- The name Microraptor means 'small thief'.
- Fossils of Microraptor have been found in China.
- Microraptor lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China.
- Microraptor was the first dinosaur found with flight feathers on all four limbs.