Scipionyx
Scipionyx was a tiny meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Italy, about 113 million years ago. Its fossil is one of the most amazing ever found because it shows the dinosaur's insides, like muscles and guts, turned to stone!1
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E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
E ne e le kwa godimo go le kae?
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Scipionyx e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
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E ne e le bonako go le kae?
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Scipionyx is the first dinosaur ever found in Italy.1
The fossil is so well preserved that scientists can see the shapes of muscles, blood vessels, and even parts of the intestines.1
This dinosaur was a baby, only about 46 centimetres (18 inches) long, and probably just three days old when it died.1
Inside its stomach, scientists found bones and scales from lizards and fish, showing it ate a variety of small animals.1
Scipionyx had a long tail to balance its body and walked on two legs.1
The fossil was discovered in 1981 by an amateur fossil hunter who first thought it was a bird.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Scipionyx
?How big was Scipionyx?
The only known fossil is a baby about 46 centimetres (18 inches) long. Scientists think adults may have reached about 2.1 metres (7 feet) long, but no adult fossils have been found.12
?What did Scipionyx eat?
Scipionyx ate lizards and fish. Scientists found bones and scales from these animals inside its stomach.1
?Did Scipionyx have feathers?
No feathers were found on the fossil, but scientists think it probably had a fuzzy coat of primitive feathers, like its relatives.12
?Where was Scipionyx found?
It was found in Italy, near the village of Pietraroja, in 1981 by an amateur fossil hunter.1
?Is Scipionyx a dinosaur?
Yes, Scipionyx is a small meat-eating dinosaur called a theropod.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Scipionyx
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Dal Sasso and Signore 19964
- Setlhopha
- Didino tse di jang nama
- Lelapa / clade
- Compsognathidae4
- Thulaganyo
- Theropoda > Compsognathidae4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 113 go ya go 110 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Albian)4
- Dinaga
- Itali4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- The only known Scipionyx fossil was found in 1981 by Giovanni Todesco, an amateur paleontologist, in a quarry near Pietraroja, Italy. It was named Scipionyx samniticus in 1998 by scientists Marco Signore and Cristiano Dal Sasso.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure how Scipionyx breathed. They have studied the position of its internal organs but disagree on the answer.1
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- Scipionyx (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mesozoic Monthly: Scipionyx (carnegiemnh.org)
- Exceptional soft-tissue preservation in a theropod dinosaur from Italy | Nature (nature.com)
- Scipionyx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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