China seems to be the place to go to find some rather unique and interesting dinosaurs. Sinornithoides actually means “Chinese bird form” and this Cretaceous period dinosaur lived up to its name (or is it died up to?).  With feathers, a long tail and short teeth this turkey sized dinosaur was a fast runner and clever to boot.

We have just one video for this Chinese marvel… I’m a Dinosaur.

I actually have a rather limited number of links for our feathered omnivore (yes, Emanuel was over the moon that we found another omnivore, though some of our resources say carnivore only). Planet Dinosaur has our dinosaur up with the picture we used as a colouring page HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has an informative page HERE. I found it interesting that an almost complete fossil was found and it was ALSO in a bird like position… though that COULD be just a result of fossilization of course. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Red Orbit has a short blurb HERE. Dino Wikia also has their information HERE. Palaeocritti has a great image of the skeleton of the Sinornithoides HERE. And of course Wiki has its article HERE. It is hard  to believe that something that could be so dangerous (granted only to small creatures) was so tiny! So perfect! 

Joined by Zander who may just be along for the ride long term on our personal Dinosaur Adventure!