Bambiraptor Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata (animals with spinal nerve cords) Subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones) Class Archosauria ("ruling reptiles") Subclass Dinosauria (extinct reptiles "terrible lizards") Order Saurischia (lizard-hipped) Suborder Theropoda (beast-footed) Family Coelurosauridae (very advanced meat-eaters) Genus Bambiraptor ("fawn raider," baby raptor) Species feinbergi (in honor of Michael and Ann Feinberg)

Meet the Bambiraptor

Bambiraptor means baby raptor. Bambiraptor got its name because of its small size.

Bambiraptor lived about 74 to 80 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous Period, at the same time as Gorgosaurus and Maiasaura but several million years before T. rex was alive.

Bambiraptor was very small compared to a T. rex, gorgosaur, or Maiasaura. It was about 3 feet long and 1 foot tall and weighed around 7 pounds. Its skull was about the size of a light bulb.

Bambiraptor was a carnivore, which means it ate meat instead of plants. Do you think it was a predator or a scavenger?

Interesting Things About the Bambiraptor

Bambiraptor is the most bird-like of all the raptor dinosaurs found. Scientists don't know if Bambiraptor actually could fly, but its fossilized bones do show a close relationship to birds.

Only one Bambirpator skeleton has ever been found. The two Dinosphere Bambiraptors are casts made from the original Bambirpator.

The Bambiraptor's Discovery

The Linsters, a family of amateur paleontologists, found the original Bambiraptor in 1997 in Teton County Montana.

The Bambiraptor was discovered with Dinosphere's Gorgosaurus and Maiasaura.