Archaeopteryx
Pronounced: ar-kee-OP-ter-iks
🍖 Carnivore 🌳 Jurassic
The famous ‘first bird’! It had feathers and wings, but teeth and a long bony tail as well.
- length
- 0.5 m
- weight
- 1 kg
- lived
- 150–148 million years ago
- diet
- Carnivore
Did you know?
- It shows how dinosaurs slowly turned into birds! 🐦
- It was about the size of a crow – smaller than most cats.
- Its fossils from Germany still show the imprints of feathers.
How big were they?
Archaeopteryx: 0.5 m – about 0.4 times your height!