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Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :

This is pretty cool and a huge visual change... Dinosaurs covered in feathers.

Took me by surprise. I didn't know that it was a growing theory. I knew that dinosaurs were closely related to birds, but. Cool, man.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I knew about the theory, but only in the context of newly discovered species. I hadn't heard of the China find.

Very cool.

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Awww... Wook at da wittle cute fwuffy... T-Rex?!? o_O

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

A few jatraqueros attended the flying dinosaurs exhibit last spring at CanadaCon 2.0, and there were lots of flying and otherwise feathered dinosaurs there.

The idea certainly makes them seem a little less.. terrifying.

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

Hagrid would approve. [Smile]

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

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The idea certainly makes them seem a little less.. terrifying.

Obviously you've never messed with the chickens in The Legend of Zelda 3: A Link to the Past. Feathers are terrifying!

--Enigmatic

Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :

Have you ever seen Chicken Run? That was some frightening poultry!

Imagine the scene in Jurassic Park: "Must go faster, must go faster!"
"It has feathers, so how bad can it be? I'm not going to speed on this muddy road with a wimpy looking dinosaur behind me."
*gets eaten*

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

I heard awhile ago that T-rex might've been feathered in the same way that a vulture is -- bare head and neck so the gore didn't get all mucked up in the head feathers.

I imagine it was a pretty ugly looking critter with or without feathers.

Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :

[Laugh]

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Tyrannosaurs might have resembled giant chicks.

I just find this mental image extremely amusing.

Bob's vulture idea...not so much, although it does sound more practical.

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

Artist's conception of what a feathered dinosaur may look like (from the National Geographic website).

Weird.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Yeah. Looks like a kid playing dress-up.

Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :

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The idea certainly makes them seem a little less.. terrifying.

I actually found their models to be far more terrifying because of the feathers. I expect something that big and freaky to look devoid of all cuddliness; but with those feathers it looked like a giant, demented doll out of a cheap horror flick come true. Dead freaky, I tell you.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Sunny days, sweepin the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet...

(I'll never be able to see Big Bird the same again)

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

For some reason Bob's comment makes me think of the bird monster from the Luck Child episode of The Storyteller. I think it was supposed to be a griffin, iirc.

"My likes goulash and itch-nitch scritch-scratch!"

--Enigmatic

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Maybe they looked something like this: Tweety...

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

>>dinosaurs evolved the ability to fly and that some even developed all four limbs into wings.

This scans like the creature had four wings. Is that what it means?