sinosauropteryx

Sinosauropteryx-- the first dinosaur whose real-life colors we know!

Sinosauropteryx was a tiny, feathered dinosaur with a long, red-and-white striped tail, a pale underbelly, and a red stripe across its eyes. Here I've added a few black accents at the ends of its limbs and around its mouth, areas whose colors are, to the best of my knowledge, still unknown.

I've tried to make this as accurate a portrait as I could, but know that I'm not a professional paleoartist by any means, so please forgive any errors in the anatomy! I know I may have gone a bit overboard with the swoosh of the tail. Could it really have curved quite that dramatically? It's a mystery 👻