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Early Chinese dino-bird with a long tail. Unlike archaeopteryx, it was probably capable of reasonably good flight, though it was no crow.

Edit: Updated the pose and silhouette. Mercifully the last overhaul I did back in 2006 cleared out any serious issues in the osteology.
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~ZEGH8578 Mar 14, 2013
With its hand so close to the ground, would its flight wings not touch the ground?
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*ScottHartman Mar 14, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Yes, they would. The pose is more designed to allow comparison with other proto-birds. In the silhouette I just posted to PhyloPic I flexed the wrist more to let the wings clear the ground.
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~RazbaserDescription Dec 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
the skeletal structure is ostly correct, the anatomy, on the other hand, aint, 1st the tail is far to thin at the base, it needs to be wider. 2nd the stomach is far to, thick, he looks like an over weight dino... 3rd off, the neck is to thin at the base, regarding to the stomach.

i hope this helps you, and dont take this as bad critique, cus it aint :P
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*ScottHartman Mar 14, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Funny, I'd already updated the neck and tail base when you wrote this (updating DA is just for fun, the professional work comes first, sorry!). The stomach is fine; the "I'm really hungry with a hollow belly" look that Greg Paul popularized only really applies to true carnivores (Jeholornis is a seed eater), and even then only when they haven't eaten for quite a while. Moreover, the actual positioning of the gastral basket varies during the course of respiration, so even a hungry allosaur wouldn't have had its stomach sucked in all the time if you saw them in real life.
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~RazbaserDescription Mar 31, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
haha lols xD
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~jconway Apr 12, 2007
Look at that beefcake lower jaw, I bet he was a thug.
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*ScottHartman Apr 12, 2007  Professional Digital Artist
He stole the lunch money of immature Sapeornis all the time...
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~jconway Apr 13, 2007
The big beefcake bully bird!
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