Photographs of a pair of toy microraptors, one from PNSO and the second Zabwaka Figurka.

The microraptor was a unique four winged dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous, related to later larger Dromaeosauridae like the movie favourite Velociraptor. The microraptors were abundant in the period 125 to 120 million years ago. Examination of the fossils with a scanning electron microscopic lead paleontologists to conclude that like modern ravens and crows, the microraptor had shiny black feathers with some areas of iridescence like a starling.