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Walt Simsonson sent me this LINK.

Zounds!!

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Wallace Sellars
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Wow!

I wonder if depictions of dinosaurs will begin to change to reflect this.
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Bob Freeman
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Like my son is fond of saying, "T-Rex is just a 50' tall chicken with teeth. Pass the barbecue sauce."
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I wonder if depictions of dinosaurs will begin to change to reflect this.

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The current issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has a cover story on T-Rex and his family tree. The dinosaurs are all portrayed as feathered -- tho somewhat half-heartedly, imho. T-Rex is shown with little spiky feathers that do not fully cover his hide. I will not really be satisfied until he and his kith and kin look like giant cockatoos!

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Rich Marzullo
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Science is amazing. In the span of a hundred years, we've gone from this:


to this:


A century from now, what will our conception of dinosaurs be, I wonder...



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Conrad Teves
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That is really cool!
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Gundars Berzins
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Argh my world keeps changing! Pluto not a real planet, I can take a phone with me, and dinosaurs with feathers.
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Mike Norris
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Looks like something Elton John would wear in the 70s.
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Chris Blaise
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And possibly beaks.
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Stephen Robinson
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Giant chickens. Giant freaking chickens. Isn't that
*scarier* than giant lizards? Even though there are still
lizards today, obviously, just like there are birds but
there's just something so *wrong* about the latter being
so large.
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Peter Hicks
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Before we go out and hydro spray feathers all over every dinosaur we can think of, let us recall that we have many fossilized skin imprints from dinosaurs that show scales, but no feathers. SOME dinosaurs had feathers, particularly the later raptors that appear to be the direct ancestors of birds. But we have "mummified" fossil remains so well preserved that we can see internal organs, and there is no sign of feathers.

Dinosaurs were not birds. Nor were they reptiles. Dinosaurs were unique life forms that resist our efforts to pigeon hole them into a current day category.   
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Bill Mimbu
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Gads...

JURASSIC HENHOUSE
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