The living animal would have been about the size of a crow, covered in long feathers from the back of its head to the tip of its tail and toes. When paleontologists assessed the dinosaur’s ...

Crows have fan-shaped tails with more squared feather tips, whereas ravens have wedge-shaped tails with slightly pointed feather tips. When a raven is flying, the tail feathers are arranged in a ...

The feathers around a crow’s head are smooth and neat. Ravens and crows have different tail shapes. An American crow has a fan-shaped tail in flight, while a raven’s is more pointed in the middle.