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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Groovelord Neato posted:

nope. scales are way cooler and scarier. nerds always try to defend the drag queens of the jurassic but it'll never work on me, my mind is too strong.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

got any sevens posted:

Crocodiles are pretty intimidating. And speaking of novel chat, The Great Zoo of China has dragons that are sort of flying crocodiles and it's cool as hell. It's like Jurassic Park with a lot more explosions.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

hiddenmovement posted:

Dinosaurs = feathered isn't as clear cut as headlines make it.

Most dinosaurs were scaled. There's some evidence that ceratopsians had a bit of feathering here and there, but for the most part they are how you pictured them, give or take a little plumage along the back.

There is little evidence that large therapods had large, colourful, shafted feathers like modern birds. There is strong evidence they had fluffy downy feathers, but again it's not clear if they all had them (because there are certainly examples of certain species with scaled skin) or if they only appeared on juveniles which were lost as the animal matured. Eitherway, a T-Rex probably looked less like a flamingo and more like a wolf. Dromeosaurs are a different story, there is pretty strong fossil evidence that at least some of them had large feathered coverings so it stands to reason that most of them were probably like that. So Velociraptor, which was actually a teeny little dinosaur with a crocodile like snout, was probably Absolutely Fabulous.

Big fluffy feathers like the ones we associated with modern birds have evolved to allow the animal to fly and conserve heat. They may have been evolutionary advantageous to a small therapod, but If you are a 16 meter, 8 tonne monster, you aren't flying nor losing heaps of heat. How does it benefit the animal to evolve them? It probably doesn't.

lol you're completely and utterly incorrect

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

The prevailing scientific theory is that many, many dinosaurs were highly feathered. Every time there's a major advancement in fossil analysis or a new, better preserved fossils are found there are feathers. Don't forget that dinosaurs were on earth for longer than anything post-ice age has been and covered a wide variety of ecological niches. Feathers were to dinosaurs as hair is to mammals.

Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Feb 27, 2017

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

hiddenmovement posted:

The article you just posted literally describes a juvenile coelurosaur, so a small young predatory dinosaur exactly like I described. Thanks for playing, try reading your own link next time.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-discover-a-gigantic-feathered-tyrannosaur-172633563/

The Yutyrannus huali was a 9 meter long feathered dino, the largest currently confirmed and not a feathered juvenile.

I assume that since it doesn't fit with your nostalgia for a movie about genetically engineered frog monsters then 30 feet won't be big enough or some poo poo like that.

Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Feb 27, 2017

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