Microraptor gui - The Four-Winged Dinosaur That Glided Through the Cretaceous #2071070 (License: Personal Use)

This detailed illustration depicts Microraptor gui, a small dromaeosaurid theropod from the Early Cretaceous (~120 million years ago), known for its asymmetrical flight feathers on both forelimbs and hindlimbs. Its body is covered in mottled brownish-yellow integument, with iridescent green flight feathers and a striking red crest-features inferred from melanosomes preserved in fossil specimens. The pose captures its likely gliding locomotion through forested environments of ancient Liaoning, China.

Used in paleontology education, museum exhibits, science journalism, and evolutionary biology resources; targets users seeking visual understanding of transitional fossils, dinosaur-bird links, or Mesozoic ecosystems.