What is Zhenyuanlong?
Q: What is Zhenyuanlong?
A: Zhenyuanlong is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.
Q: When did Zhenyuanlong live?
A: Zhenyuanlong lived in the early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.
Q: How long was the estimated length of Zhenyuanlong?
A: The estimated length of Zhenyuanlong was about 165 centimetres (5.41 ft) when complete.
Q: Could Zhenyuanlong fly?
A: Zhenyuanlong was too large to have flown, especially since early flight was, almost certainly, less efficient than the flight of modern birds.
Q: What did Zhenyuanlong look like?
A: Zhenyuanlong would surely have looked more like a bird than a modern reptile, as shown in most reconstructions of dinobirds.
Q: What is the significance of the Zhenyuanlong specimen?
A: The specimen is the first evidence of well-developed feathers in a large, non-flying dromaeosaur, suggesting that the feathers probably had two functions, temperature control and signalling.
Q: How many specimens of Zhenyuanlong are there?
A: There is just one specimen of Zhenyuanlong.
