Microraptor gui Scale:1:6 honors the Bavarian geologist Ludwig

honors the Bavarian geologist Ludwig von Ammon

The Ichthyovenator fossil was discovered at the Jehol site in northeast China's Liaoning province

and possibly for defense

a group that includes the ancestors of crocodiles and birds

feeding on low plants that it cut with its sharp

Microraptor gui Scale:1:6 honors the Bavarian geologist LudwigMicroraptor gui was a small theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, approximately 120 million years ago, in what is now China. This dinosaur is especially famous for its impressive plumage and for being one of the clearest examples of the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. Its name means "little thief," and the species "gui" was given in honor of the Chinese paleontologist Gu Zhiwei. Microraptor gui measured about