Reconstruction of the small <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Theropod" class="mw-redirect" title="Theropod">theropod</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur" class="mw-redirect" title="Dinosaur">dinosaur</a> <i>Dilong paradoxus</i>, with a suit of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hair" class="mw-redirect" title="Hair">hair</a>-like <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feathers" class="mw-redirect" title="Feathers">feathers</a>. <i>Dilong</i> was a close relative to <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_rex" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyrannosaurus rex">Tyrannosaurus rex</a></i>, but was merely about 5.5 - 6 feet long, and had longer forelimbs with 3 digits. So far, <i>Dilong</i> is the only <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosauroidea" title="Tyrannosauroidea">tyrannosauroid</a> with evidence for <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feathers" class="mw-redirect" title="Feathers">feathers</a>. Those feathers were not the type which most <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Birds">birds</a> have, but they was like a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiwibird&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Kiwibird (page does not exist)">kiwibirds</a>: Simple, hollow filaments, more like the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fur" title="Fur">fur</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mammals" class="mw-redirect" title="Mammals">mammals</a>. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Color" class="mw-redirect" title="Color">color</a><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pattern" title="Pattern">pattern</a> is a guess, based on new research about <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinosauropteryx&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinosauropteryx (page does not exist)">Sinosauropteryx</a></i> (another feathered dinosaur) possible colors (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/2009/08/colour-and-shape.html">[1]</a>). See skeleton of <i>Dilong</i> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.amnh.org/science/papers/images/dilong4.jpg">[2]</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dinocasts.com/prod_productDetails.asp?ProductId=732">[3]</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6429/dilongplumesaa5.jpg">[4]</a>
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