Day 16: I love Compsognathus longipes. Long thought to be the smallest dinosaur, it's since been roundly beaten to that title, but nonetheless, it was a little creature that scurried around Europe in the late Jurassic, some 150 million years ago. It's actually been found with stomach contents intact, so we know that (possibly amongst other things) it ate small, fast-moving lizards. It would have been fast, then, and possibly feathered to some extent. (No specimens have been found with traces of feathers, but several of its relatives are known to have had coats of what have come to be known as "proto-feathers", like feathery forerunners.) Again, it would be nice to have a look, please and thank you.
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