Serikornis
Serikornis was a small, feathered dinosaur that lived about 160 million years ago. It had long feathers on its arms and legs, but it couldn't fly. Instead, it probably used its feathers for display or to help it run.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
kakanyo
Serikornis e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
The name Serikornis means 'silken bird' because of its beautiful, feathery coat.1
It had long feathers on its hind legs all the way down to its toes, which is unusual for a ground-dwelling dinosaur.1
The feathers on its arms were symmetrical and didn't have tiny hooks called barbules, so they weren't good for flying.1
Serikornis lived during the Late Jurassic period, about 161 to 155 million years ago.2
Scientists think Serikornis was a ground-dwelling dinosaur that did not climb trees or fly.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Serikornis
?How big was Serikornis?
About 45 cm (1.5 feet) long, about the size of a pheasant.3
?Could Serikornis fly?
No, it could not fly. Its feathers lacked tiny hooks called barbules, so they couldn't hold air for flight.31
?What did Serikornis eat?
It was a meat-eating theropod dinosaur, so it likely ate small animals like insects or lizards.4
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Serikornis was a flying dinosaur with four wings.
Nnete: Serikornis had long feathers on its legs and arms, but it could not fly and probably lived on the ground.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Serikornis
- E rehilwe ke
- Lefèvre et al. 20175
- Sehlopha
- Didinosaure tse jang nama
- Lelapa / leloko
- Paraves5
- Tlhophiso
- Theropoda5
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 162 ho isa ho 155 (Oxfordian)5
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Tiaojishan5
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database5
- Ho sibollwa
- Serikornis was named in 2017 by a team of scientists including Ulysse Lefèvre and Andrea Cau. The only fossil was found in the Tiaojishan Formation of Liaoning, China.15
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are still debating whether Serikornis is a very early bird relative or a more primitive dinosaur, and exactly how its feathers evolved.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- New Feathered Dinosaur Had Four Wings but Couldn't Fly | National Geographic (nationalgeographic.com)
- Serikornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- Serikornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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