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!

I have a REALLY good excuse to not post a regular blog entry in December – after a busy day of schooling – an evening out with girl friends! Supper and shopping. Being out with two truly crafty ladies is such an inspiration!!!

The African dinosaur with a tongue click in the name! And only ONE fossilized skeleton found withOUT a skull! So… as you can imagine, not too much online to share BUT there are some interesting tidbits! This is potentially a chicken (well maybe TURKEY) sized omnivore! Though for certain a carnivore. It is the great uncle so to speak of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It absolutely walked on two legs but had a finger that was almost a thumb so most likely clung to its prey. A tiny, dangerous predator! Just one video today from I’m a Dinosaur but Emanuel enjoyed it

Now for links, not too much to be shared but here is what we found! We got our picture from The Dino Directory. We used the comparison image on the right HERE. Age of Dinosaurs has the map and a great little write up HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a brief page HERE. Thankfully EnchantedLearning had a page of facts HERE. But amazingly enough even WIKI was short on info HERE. At least now the little there is is all together. So hopefully you learned as much as we did about this little African dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period. 

The little African Dinosaur

Yup, a FEATHERED dinosaur! The dinosaur of the day is another Chinese one, and rather unique at that, called Beipiaosaurus. This potentially omnivorous dinosaur was found during the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs.about.com describes it as follows: “long-clawed, pot-bellied, two-legged herbivorous theropods that seem to have been constructed from bits of other types of dinosaurs.” you can find this quote HERE. I have found most sites refer to it as an herbivore but there is some debate. 

We have partial skeletons of this dinosaur, but where they were found allowed for the impressions of the feathers or feather like portions of the dinosaur to survive in the form of impressions. Not much larger than a man this dinosaur was a hit with our fanatic just due to how we believe it looked as is really well illustrated HERE. We chose it from the list of I’m a Dinosaur videos on youTube so of course you have to watch the one below!

Our second video is a  tribute video with a great selection of images by various artists.

We did not have a multitude of links to share but we have a great image to colour HERE. Raresource has a page HERE on our Chinese dinosaur. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Jurassic Park Wikia has their information HERE. Age of Dinosaurs has a map and point form information HERE. And of course Wiki has their article on this fascinating dinosaur HERE.

Working together