But Juravenator may not be a compsognathid.

Earlier this year, Oliver Rauhut and colleagues described another fluffy, Late Jurassic theropod found in a German limestone quarry. Named Sciurumimus – a tribute to the protofeathers that gave the theropod’s tail a squirrelish look – the juvenile dinosaur appears to have been a megalosaur, or a theropod only distantly-related to compsognathids and other feather-bearing dinosaurs. This moves the origin of dinofuzz further back down the dinosaur family tree, hinting that even theropod dinosaurs distantly-related to birds might have had some kind of wispy body covering in addition to scales.

Strangely, when it was included in the analysis of the dinosaur relationships in the study, Juravenator fell out as a close