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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/...index.html



Not so scary now?

I had heard that before but I guess it wasn't confirmed until now. I'd still be scared of them, but I guess it would tickle when they were mauling me.

Yeah, since birds descended from dinosaurs it's been thought that dinosaurs might have had feathers, and they had found that a few (more birdlike, I think) kinds of dinosaurs had feathers, but not for every dinosaur species or something like that... this is just definitely one of the better known species, thanks to Jurassic Park.

So... I wonder if they'll learn sometime whether T-Rex had feathers or not (just because some dinosaurs, and birds, had/have feathers, doesn't necesarially mean they all did, right?)... :)

This is clearly wrong because it is different from what Jurrasic Park taught me.

AAAWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Jurassic Park 5: The Cutenening

Apparently scientists were wrong about the original concept of the T-Rex as well, the new theories has the T-Rex at a much shorter stature but even deadlier than before.

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merch.../18581.jpg

Yuh the Raptor is like a giant carnivorous Turkey , I wonder if they taste like chicken?

*asks the donner family*

*corpse*

Man... they were like killer ostriches.

Giant chickens of doom? :)

Quote:This is clearly wrong because it is different from what Jurrasic Park taught me.

Right... if Hollywood's taught us one thing, it's that whatever sounds most exciting has to be the truth? :D

Wait, wait, wait. So Velociraptors were really...Chocobos?

I guess the tail feather is like a rudder. Apparently they where quite smart and hunted in packs like wolves , If a giant meteor rock had not wiped them off, Just maybe the thing typing away on a keyboard right now would be a big bird man.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...145402.htm

A much more in-depth article... the key, I think, (to why they thought it had feathers and why it did) is that evidently Velociraptor was a type of dinosaur closely related to modern birds. I wonder if the types less closely related to birds looked similarly or not... though not all of them had feathers, of course. I somehow doubt that the ones that lived underwater had feathers... penguins notwithstanding. (okay, maybe some had something like that...) :)

the theory of feathers and fur have been tossed around for a long time but you have to apply it to each category of the animals. It's no joke that a triceratops can fit in the mold of an elephant or a rhino without much adjustment since all animals today still fit in the basic categories as all the prehistoric ones did. All warm blooded mammals today started out as cold blooded mammal-like amphibians, the much smaller ones adapted warmer body temps to increase speed but the larger arthopods had dominence, all of which were herbivores, the speed of the warm blooded means they need higher proteins and more food at once, typically resulting in carnivores. The time line that resulted in arthopods losing ground and dominence and super light weight (about the size of a chicken) warm blooded mammal-like animals becoming 3 story tall killing machines still makes no sense to me. But in basic terms, the prehistoric rhino developed fur during ice ages, there's good insight in to several dinosaur types who could have developed fur. It's important to realize that dinosaurs aren't lizards and they are what developed in to mammals today (and birds). There's no reason for them to resemble lizards when it comes to skin and appearance.

I also remembered that Jurassic Park 3 had raptors with head feathers. So Hollywood is trying. ;D

The velociraptor is small, like chicken small. The thing in those movies is a lot closer (if you are looking at size) to a Utah Raptor. Yeah, that name sucks compared to "veloci" but if you just drop the prefix you have a cool name again.

This won't be the last revision. The only thing scientists can do is say "based on the best available evidence, this is what we think they looked like". More data, more revisions. It took some special fossil to find out that many dinosaurs had a heart much closer to warm blooded mammals than reptiles.