“Zhenyuanlong was a dinosaur that really looked like a bird,” said Brusatte, who collaborated with Chinese paleontologist Junchang Lü. Considering its mouth full of sharp teeth and its overall oddness, University of Edinburgh paleontologist Steve Brusatte dubbed the dinosaur, named Zhenyuanlong suni, a “fluffy feathered poodle from hell.”Ī member of a group of dinosaurs called raptors closely related to birds, it was a cousin of Velociraptor, although that dinosaur, featured inaccurately in the “Jurassic Park” films as much bigger than it was, lived about 40-50 million years later. The largest-known dinosaur with wings, it lived about 125 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Now you don’t need to turn Airplane Mode on or disconnect your Internet connection to relish Chrome Dino playtime.The researchers on Thursday said the fast-running meat-eater was about 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and covered with simple hair-like feathers over much of its body, with large, quill-like feathers on its wings and long tail. The T-Rex game was first introduced in September 2014, but it did not work on earlier Android OS versions so that Google developers fully completed their brainchild only by December that year.

While designing the game, the engineers thought about allotting Dino more features like roaring and kicking but refused this idea to keep the game maximally simplistic or “prehistoric”.

And the game’s pixel style is the reference to Google browser’s error illustrations.Ĭhrome dinosaur offline game got the nickname “Project Bolan” in honor of Marc Bolan, the frontman of “T-Rex’, a legendary rock band of the 1970s. Chrome developer Sebastien Gabriel says that their no internet game is the nod to the prehistoric ages, millions of years before the technological boom.

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