Smallest Raptor
Microraptor
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We'll call him Mic
With his feathers and four, count 'em, four primitive wings (one set each on its forearms and hind legs), the early Cretaceous Microraptor might easily have been mistaken for a bizarrely mutated pigeon. This was, however, a genuine raptor,
albeit one that only measured about two feet from head to tail and
weighed a few pounds soaking wet. Because of Mic's tiny size,
paleontologists believe that Mic subsisted on a diet of insects.
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