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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132129
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 6:03am | IP Logged | 1
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Walt Simsonson sent me this LINK.Zounds!!
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17659
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 6:33am | IP Logged | 2
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Wow!
I wonder if depictions of dinosaurs will begin to change to reflect this.
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Bob Freeman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 880
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 6:49am | IP Logged | 3
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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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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 7:08am | IP Logged | 4
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I wonder if depictions of dinosaurs will begin to change to reflect this.•• 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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 13 January 2011 Location: United States Posts: 2693
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 7:22am | IP Logged | 5
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 2160
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 7:29am | IP Logged | 6
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That is really cool!
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Gundars Berzins Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 March 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1559
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 8:37am | IP Logged | 7
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4274
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 9:51am | IP Logged | 8
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Looks like something Elton John would wear in the 70s.
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Chris Blaise Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 298
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Posted: 20 April 2015 at 7:08am | IP Logged | 9
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And possibly beaks.
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Stephen Robinson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5835
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Posted: 20 April 2015 at 7:21am | IP Logged | 10
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1878
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Posted: 20 April 2015 at 8:39am | IP Logged | 11
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 April 2008 Location: United States Posts: 7357
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Posted: 20 April 2015 at 8:39am | IP Logged | 12
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Gads...
JURASSIC HENHOUSE
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