DinoFact
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? Are Birds Dinosaurs?
Yes — birds are living dinosaurs. Facts about feathered dinosaurs and how birds are related to T. rex.
- The name Yi means 'wing'.
- The name Shuvuuia means 'bird'.
- Velociraptor probably had feathers.
- Some dinosaurs had beaks like a bird.
- Birds and T. rex share a family tree.
- The name Unenlagia means 'half-bird'.
- The name Anchiornis means 'near bird'.
- The name Anzu means 'feathered demon'.
- Bambiraptor was a tiny, bird-like raptor.
- The name Ornithomimus means 'bird mimic'.
- The name Caudipteryx means 'tail feather'.
- Some dinosaurs had feathers but never flew.
- The name Ornitholestes means 'bird robber'.
- The name Archaeopteryx means 'ancient wing'.
- Some dinosaurs had feathers, just like birds.
- Every bird alive today is a kind of dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs had four wings instead of two.
- The name Yutyrannus means 'feathered tyrant'.
- Some dinosaurs had feathers but could not fly.
- Some dinosaurs had feathers in bright colours.
- Some fossils show skin and even feather shapes.
- Birds evolved from small meat-eating dinosaurs.
- Some dinosaurs had hollow bones, like birds do.
- Ingenia was a small beaked, bird-like dinosaur.
- A swinging tail club could keep predators away.
- Birds are the only dinosaurs still alive today.
- The name Epidexipteryx means 'display feather'.
- Feathers first appeared on dinosaurs, not birds.
- Avimimus was a bird-like dinosaur with feathers.
- Unenlagia was a bird-like raptor from Argentina.
- Some dinosaurs guarded their nests like birds do.
- Some dinosaurs had feathers just for keeping warm.
- The name Saurornithoides means 'bird-like lizard'.
- Theropods like T.rex had S-shaped, bird-like necks.
- Birds are the dinosaurs that are still alive today.
- Many dinosaurs in films are missing their feathers.
- Sinornithosaurus was a feathered raptor from China.
- China is famous for fossils of feathered dinosaurs.
- Crocodiles and birds are the only living archosaurs.
- Dinosaurs could not fly, but their bird cousins can.
- Alvarezsaurus was a small, slim, bird-like dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs kept growing for most of their lives.
- Some dinosaurs had whip-like tails they could swing.
- Fossils of Archaeopteryx have been found in Germany.
- Bird feet still look a lot like little dinosaur feet.
- When you hear a bird sing, you're hearing a dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded like birds.
- Did you know a hummingbird is a tiny living dinosaur?
- Did you know birds are the only dinosaurs left alive?
- Fine mud can capture the print of a feather or scale.
- And a little piece of them still sings in every bird.
- The name Saurornitholestes means 'lizard-bird thief'.
- Beipiaosaurus was a feathered, big-clawed plant-eater.
- Nothronychus was a feathered, big-bellied plant-eater.
- The name Sinornithosaurus means 'Chinese bird-lizard'.
- The closest living relatives of birds are crocodilians.
- Some dinosaurs blinked and breathed much like birds do.
- Many small meat-eating dinosaurs were covered in fluff.
- Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago.
- Caudipteryx was a peacock-sized dinosaur with feathers.