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[–] SquirrelX@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Has anyone actually tried representing dinosaurs like fluffy (or very feathery) animals?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

unfortunately a lot of art just sorta glues a bunch of feathers to a deinonychus and calls it a velociraptor, but here's some stuff i feel makes more sense.
(Also side note: t.rex probably was actually mostly naked, however it was likely skin rather than scales, like a giant plucked monster turkey, which IMO is significantly worse.)

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[–] tauren@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most dinosaur recreations now just go "what would a bird with this skeleton look like?"

[–] SquirrelX@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[–] cynar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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A 15' chicken with teeth would be terrifying.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The common art keeps giving them long feathers on their arms but I would have assumed long feathers only evolved on flying birds and most of the feathers on the flightless dinosaurs would be pretty uniform.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've also come across these. There's a lot we don't know, all of these could be entirely wrong.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?