Anchiornis was created in 2009.
Anchiornis is a genus of small, feathered, troodontid dinosaur.
Anchiornis is currently the smallest dinosaur described from an adult specimen, with an estimated weight of 110 grams.
The smallest meat-eating dinosaur ever was Microraptor, at 2 feet long and lighter than a turkey.
The first dinosaur discovered to have had feathers was Archaeopteryx. Later finds found that many other dinosaurs including Velociraptor, Yutyrannus, and Anchiornis are known to have had feathers.
Many species of dinosaur have been found in China. They are especially famous for well preserved fossils of small theropods that include the feathers. Three such dinosaurs that were found were Anchiornis, Microraptor, and Confuciusornis.
Theropods varied widely in size. The ranged from the tiny Anchiornis, which was about the size of a dove, to the enormous Spinosaurus which may have been as much as 60 feet long, making it the largest known land carnivore ever.
Troodon is extinct and has no skin impressions preserved. For most prehistoric animals colour is currently unknown. However, there two studies have recently found preserved Melanosomein the feathers of Sinosaurepteryx and Anchiornis and have been able to decipher their colours.
Paleontologists are just beginning to be able to discover the colors of exceptionally preserved, feathered dinosaurs, such as Anchiornis. However, there is not yet enough information on dinosaur color to discuss the topic in detail; anything someone would say would be speculation.
It depends on the kind of dinosaur. The smallest known non-avian dinosaurs, Anchiornis, a small birdlike carnivore, was not much more than a foot long, while it is estimated that the enormous herbivore Amphicoelias may have grown to over 200 feet long
With only a few exceptions they don't. Most depictions of dinosaur coloration are pure speculation. In a few cases, however, chemical traces of pigments have been found in particularly well-preserved specimens that give hints as to coloration. Two dinosaurs for which colors are known are anchiornis and microraptor.
It depends as dinosaurs came in a wide range of sizes. While we often thing of dinosaurs as huge most were actually small. Anchiornis, a dinosaur of the Late Jurassic, was about the size of a dove.BY this measure, megalodon was larger than most dinosaurs, but not all. Some sauropod dinosaurs would have been larger than megalodon.