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Marc Cheek
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If this news had come out 40-something years ago, I wonder what my 5-year old self would have thought of feathered dinosaurs...?
Edited by Marc Cheek on 20 April 2015 at 11:10am
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John Byrne
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SOME dinosaurs had feathers...••• Is someone saying otherwise?
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Jesus Garcia
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Hummm ...
Good thing "Jurassic Park" is not a Lucas Baby, 'cause he'd redo the effects.
I can well imagine the T-Rex in the first picture crashing into the out-house in a flurry of feathers!!!
And ... Kirby might not have made the "Dinosaur Hide" connection to explain The Thing's skin texture had he known about the feathers thing.
It's a brain reboot for me anyhow, to think of Dinosaurs with that kind of covering. Makes me rethink how the predators went about identifying their prey. Until now, I had figured mainly smell or spoor.
Edited by Jesus Garcia on 20 April 2015 at 12:24pm
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John Byrne
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Makes me rethink how the predators went about identifying their prey. Until now, I had figured mainly smell or spoor.•• Okay, I'm not too proud to admit my ignorance. Why would feathers make a difference to that?
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Peter Hicks
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SOME dinosaurs had feathers...
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Is someone saying otherwise?
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No, but it didn't seem like anybody in this thread was tempering over statements either. Yutyrannus is the biggest dinosaur with evidence of feathers so far. At 9 m long, it was a fair size, but there has been no evidence of feathers in the larger beasts that come to mind when one pictures dinosaurs.
So, yes, feathers (more correctly proto feathers) were present on some of the later therapods, more commonly in smaller animals.
What surprises me the most is how Archaeopteryx was discovered in 1861, but it is only in the last generation that dinosaurs were considered to be the ancestors of birds. Did people just think Archaeopteryx was the duck billed platypus of the past?
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Jesus Garcia
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Makes me rethink how the predators went about identifying their prey. Until now, I had figured mainly smell or spoor.•• Okay, I'm not too proud to admit my ignorance. Why would feathers make a difference to that? **** I'm admitting mine as well: I can't think of any modern land-bound feathered (bird-like) predators / prey couplings. I was just wondering whether the tracking of shed feathers was an activity a dinosaur predator / prey coupling would have pursued. This is a novel concept in my mind and it popped an image in my mind: a feathered raptor tracking feathers actually. Pure mind-wandering speculation of my side.
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Daniel Gillotte
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Watching my chickens in the yard is WAY more fun when I think of them as little dinosaurs. But man, look at chicken feet and you can see their dinosaur forebears, I bet.
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James Woodcock
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Good thing "Jurassic Park" is not a Lucas Baby, 'cause he'd redo the effects
------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- I actually think that might be a good thing to do - redoing the effects in JP to produce feathered dinosaurs would in one stroke mainstream this knowledge.
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John Byrne
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The JURASSIC PARK franchise has a built in excuse for side stepping this intrusion of reality. The "theme park monsters" seen in the movies are NOT dinosaurs. They're FROGS with some dinosaur DNA mixed in. And frogs don't have feathers. (Although the movie allows that DNA degrades over millions of years, it skips past just how MUCH frog filler would be required to patch the gaps. The resultant creatures would be MOSTLY frog. Like 90%.)
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Michael Penn
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A movie full of 10 ton frogs would be scary!
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Brian Hague
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"Night of the Leapers!"
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Paul Go
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Very interesting!
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