The feathers provided thermal insulation

permitiendo a los individuos reconocer a otros miembros de su especie o demostrar su estado social

Inside the shell

was an extinct species of day gecko

Sinosauropteryx prima Variant:Primed The feathers provided thermal insulationSinosauropteryx prima is the only known species of the extinct genus Sinosauropteryx of feathered compsognathid theropod dinosaur, which lived in the mid Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million years ago, in the Aptian, in what is now Asia. It was discovered in northeastern China's Liaoning province, which is famous for its abundant and well preserved dinosaur fossils. Sinosauropteryx was a small dinosaur, with an estimated length of around 1. 1