Kunpengornis
Kunpengornis was a fish-eating bird that lived about 120 million years ago. It had a long, slender beak with small teeth for grabbing fish. Fossilized fish bones were found in its stomach, showing it really did eat fish!2
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Kunpengornis is the fourth Early Cretaceous bird found with direct evidence of eating fish.2
It lived in a lake environment in what is now China, about 121 to 113 million years ago.2
Kunpengornis had a long, pointed beak and small teeth only in the back half of its upper jaw.2
Its name comes from Kunpeng, a giant mythical bird from Chinese folklore.1
The only known fossil is a nearly complete skeleton found by a farmer and donated to a museum.2
Kunpengornis was not fully grown when it died; its bones were still fusing together.2

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?Was Kunpengornis a dinosaur?
Yes, Kunpengornis is a bird, and birds are a type of dinosaur called avialan dinosaurs.1
?What did Kunpengornis eat?
Kunpengornis ate fish. Fossilized fish bones were found in its stomach, proving it was a fish-eater.12
?How big was Kunpengornis?
Kunpengornis was a medium-sized bird, but its exact size is not given in the sources. Its skull was about 2.6 times longer than it was tall, and its rostrum (beak) made up nearly 60 percent of the skull length.2
Mito-hauslea
Mitoa: Kunpengornis is a dinosaur.
Egia: Kunpengornis is a bird (avialan), not a non-avian dinosaur. Birds evolved from dinosaurs but are in a different group.1
Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Kunpengornis
- Izendatzailea:
- Huang et al. 20264
- Taldea
- Lehen hegaztiak
- Familia / klada
- Euornithes4
- Sailkapena
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Arroken adina
- 121 eta 113 milioi urte artean (Aptian)4
- Arroka-formazioak
- Jiufotang4
- Herrialdeak
- Txina4
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean4
- Aurkikuntza
- A local farmer found the nearly complete skeleton in Liaoning, China. It was given to the Anhui Geological Museum in 2023. Scientists named it Kunpengornis anhuimusei in 2026.23
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Kunpengornis is related to other early fish-eating birds. It may have been part of a group that includes Yanornis and Piscivoravis.2
Datuak nondik datozen
- Kunpengornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new euornithine from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of China reveals the first radiation of fish-eating birds (dinosaurier-info.de)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Kunpengornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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