Inb4 the t rex is agreed to have had long, fleshy, limp whip arms that were far longer than the tiny bones.
They used the long tentacle arms to quickly thwip through the jungle
Oh for sure, without a doubt. Hell it took forever for people to figure out feathers.
Then again, on rare occasion we do get some cool skin/soft tissue evidence like that Nodosaurus in Canada. Sometimes they’re strikingly similar to what we thought (or not?). I am not a paleontologist and I am speaking out of my ass.
That Nodosaurus is super cool though, y’all should see it.
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and with the beaver tail ?
Behold, the common ancestor between the deadly T-Rex and the common beaver. You can tell they’re related due to the tiny arms, upright stance, and fierce demeanor.
What if there was a dinosaur that literally was just a walking skeleton? 🤔
Disgusting! Why have I followed the link. My entire day is ruined
In October, he was one of nine senators to vote against legislation intended to outlaw flag burning and other forms of flag defacement and joined Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch, the other two Republicans to vote against the bill,
That’s awesome. At least he stood for free speech…
in voicing a preference for a constitutional amendment.
…Jesus Christ
Fucking coffin dodger.
What’s the current consensus, did dinosaurs look more like chickens?
Some definitely had feathers, and some likely were brightly colored
In my mind, I picture of Sasquatch riding a dinosaur chicken
Mods, why was this piece of absolute poetry removed?
From what I know, most raptors had feathers and that’s where birds came from.
The broader group of theropods, including the T-Rex, had a precursor to feathers literally called “Dinofuzz”.
All other kinds of dinosaurs I believe are actually scaly like we thought.
This is still not something we can answer with certainty. For a couple of years there, paleontology thought that psittacosaurus had feathers on its tail - and as a ceratopsian, on the complete other side of the dinosaur ‘tree’, that would suggest the base form for dinosaurs must have feathers and any that didn’t have them lost them at some point in their lineage (and thus could potentially regain them if the DNA was deactivated rather than lost). Now the feathers are disputed again, as “something else” - spines of some sort unrelated to feathers.
No doubt lots of dinosaurs were scaly, but I don’t think anyone would say with certainty that feathers were limited to late theropods.
I’ve also heard some contention over the ground up evolutionary theory for birds. Mainly that you don’t evolve flight from jumping up, but rather from jumping tree to tree and gliding. I’m certainly not an expert in this but as a layman it does make sense to me, if you jump to escape a predator on the ground you inevitably come back down, but if you can make it to the next tree and your predator can’t, that would indeed be a significant enough advantage to be passed down to your children. Seems easier to convert lizardy gliders like on the yi qi to wings too, rather than lizardy arms to wings.
Check out Prehistoric Planet, they say they used the latest research to make the dinos, feathers and all
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castorocauda
This beaver guy lived during the Jurassic period.
Imprints for the win!
