Qiupanykus
Qiupanykus was a tiny, speedy dinosaur that lived at the very end of the age of dinosaurs. It had strong claws on its short arms and may have used them to crack open eggs for a snack. This little hunter was one of the last non-bird dinosaurs to walk the Earth.1
Berɛ bɛn na ɛtenaa ase?
Na ne kɛseɛ yɛ sɛn?
Na ne mu yɛ duru sɛn?
Qiupanykus kɛseɛ yɛ sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
Akontaa nko ara wɔ wo browser mu. Yɛnkora biribiara so, na yɛmmfa biribiara nkɔ baabiara.
Na ɛyɛ ntɛm sɛn?
Nsɛm a ɛyɛ anigye
Qiupanykus was very small, weighing less than a kilogram (about 2 pounds). Its leg bones were only about 25 cm (10 inches) long.1
Its fossils were found right next to broken eggshells from an oviraptorosaur. Scientists think Qiupanykus used its strong claws to crack those eggs open.12
Qiupanykus lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous. That means it was alive right before the big dinosaur extinction.13
Like other alvarezsaurids, Qiupanykus had a special foot called an arctometatarsus, which helped it run fast.1
No skull bones of Qiupanykus have been found yet, so scientists are not sure what its head looked like.1
The name Qiupanykus means 'claw from the Qiupa Formation', because its fossils were found in the Qiupa Formation in China.1

Atosɛm sɛefoɔ
Atosɛm: Some people think all small dinosaurs were plant-eaters.
Nokorɛ: Qiupanykus was a small dinosaur, but it was a meat-eater. It may have eaten eggs and small animals.1
Ma dino ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Qiupanykus
- Obi a ɔtoo din
- Lü et al. 20184
- Kuo
- Dino a wɔwe nam
- Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ
- Alvarezsauroidea4
- Nkyekyɛmu
- Theropoda4
- Abotan no mfeɛ
- mfeɛ ɔpepem 72 kɔsi 66 (Maastrichtian)4
- Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ
- Qiupa4
- Aman
- Kyaena4
- Fɔsil nkyerɛwee
- 1 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu4
- Nhunumu
- Qiupanykus was named in 2018 by Lü Junchang and his team. The fossils were found near the village of Guanping in Luanchuan County, Henan Province, China. The species name zhangi honors Shuancheng Zhang, who helped find the fossils.1
- Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye
- Scientists are not sure whether Qiupanykus mostly ate eggs or also hunted small animals. They also debate if the eggshells found with it belonged to another dinosaur or to Qiupanykus itself.1
Baabi a nsɛm no firi
- Qiupanykus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China (exa.ai)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Qiupanykus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.
Asɛm biara a ɛwɔ krataafa yi so wɔ nɔma a ɛkyerɛ baabi a ɛfiri. Sɛ yɛfom biribi a, kafra, yɛyɛ dino dɔfoɔ, yɛnyɛ nyansahu nsɛmma krataa. Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected] na yɛbɛsiesie.
Ɔkɔm de Rex! Dino Wiki yɛ agya bi adwuma a ɔyɛɛ maa ne babarima a ɔdɔ dino. Ɛyɛ kwa, dawurubɔ biara nni mu, akyidifoɔ biara nni mu. Mpanimfoɔ bɛtumi ama Rex aduane kakra, na aboa ama Dino Wiki atena intanɛt so.Ma Rex aduane