Zhongornis
Zhongornis was a tiny, feathered dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago in what is now China. It had a beak with no teeth and a short tail, making it look a bit like a bird. It is special because it helps show how some dinosaurs evolved into birds.12
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
Zhongornis 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
Zhongornis had a beak with no teeth, unlike many other early birds.1
Its tail had only 13 vertebrae, much fewer than the 22 in Archaeopteryx, a more primitive bird-like dinosaur.1
The third finger of Zhongornis had only two bones, which is more like advanced birds than like earlier dinosaurs.1
Zhongornis is the only fossil found that seems to be intermediate between long-tailed birds like Archaeopteryx and short-tailed birds like Confuciusornis.1
The only known specimen was a juvenile, but it had already grown feathers on its hand and tail.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Zhongornis
?How big was Zhongornis?
It was tiny, about 8 centimeters long (roughly 3 inches).1
?Did Zhongornis have feathers?
Yes, it had feathers on its hand and tail, as shown by impressions on the fossil.1
?What did Zhongornis eat?
It was a meat-eating dinosaur, but its beak had no teeth, so it probably ate small prey or insects.1
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Zhongornis was a true bird.
Nnete: Zhongornis was a dinosaur, not a bird. It is a primitive member of the group that includes birds, but it is not a bird itself.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Zhongornis
- E rehilwe ke
- Gao et al. 20084
- Sehlopha
- Didinosaure tse jang nama
- Lelapa / leloko
- Paraves4
- Tlhophiso
- Theropoda4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 126 ho isa ho 120 (Barremian / Aptian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Yixian4
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Zhongornis was named by Gao et al. in 2008. The only specimen was donated to the Dalian Natural History Museum in China by a woman named Ms. Hao, and the species is named after her.12
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are still debating whether Zhongornis is more closely related to birds with short tails or to those with long tails, because it has features of both.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Zhongornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Reinterpretation of the Early Cretaceous maniraptoran (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Zhongornis haoae as a scansoriopterygid-like non-avian, and morphological resemblances between scansoriopterygids and basal oviraptorosaurs (ivpp.ac.cn)
- Zhongornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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