Covering
Feathers
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The main difference is that its feathers aren't just skin-covering down; it has flight feathers of very modern-looking shape in its wings and tail.
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Unlike the latter, it was a "maniraptoran" theropod: its forelimbs were bird-like, and is considered to have had a very bird-like covering of feathers, with feathered wings and a feathered tail fan.
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Another compsognathid, Sinosauropteryx from Early Cretaceous China, shows downy covering around its skeleton but not pennaceous feathers; this was probably the same for Compsognathus, too.
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