T.Rex looks like a giant rat

species like Trex probably wouldn't have feathers like that though they would look less scaly than normally seen

Its not like all dinosaurs had feathers. Just the ones related to birds in the first place.

Whether it looked cool or not is irrelevant. Things don't evolve based on the coolness factor

birds are dinosaurs

Wait are even triceratops and the long necked ones related to birds?

WE

WUZ

DINOSAURS
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SHIT

L I T T L E A R M S

That is a majestic chicken
What breed is this

>Its not like all dinosaurs had feathers. Just the ones related to birds in the first place.

Well about that; featherlike structures weren't exactly limited to theropods, they've also found those on members of Heterodontosauridae and Neornithischia.

yes
related being the key word
we're related to bonobos,chimpanzees,macaques etc so i dont see how its too impossible

>We're related to bonobos, chimpanzees, macaques
Speak for yourself

related, but not descended from
big difference

Is that fucking Foghorn Leghorn?

some french breed

FEATHERED

Is that a chicken in a chicken-mecha?

You know what bothers me about this? That people forget that dinosaurs already had a massive change in cultural perception with JP and people forget about it.

Remember that prior to this movie, it was the common perception that all 2-legged dinosaurs walked upright, and that they dragged their tail on the ground behind them. JP changed that by introducing the idea of a more horizontal spine with the tail acting as a form of balance.

I think the more interesting thing to come out of the feathers revelation is the possibility that dinosaurs might have been actually warm-blooded.

Obviously the T. Rex was large (and therefore created more heat), never mind the fact that it lived in a warm climate. Obviously it couldn’t fly, so feathers would be biologically useless. It is likely the Rex had small feathers alongside its spine and crest but not much else.
However its relatives have been shown to have feathers. A smaller Tyrannosaurid that lived in the colder climates of China had feathers covering its whole body, Yutyrannus. The people who debate this feather shit fail to realize that it was a case by case scenario. For example, Allosaurids and Carcharodontosaurids most certainly didn’t have feathers.

What went wrong, Veeky Forums?

Nothing as none of those birds look like dinosaurs would've.

hello intelligent nonhuman. Whats the nature of your existence? Organic extraterrestrial?Inorganic AI?
What brought you to Veeky Forums?

loled at retarded bald eagle.
A true american symbol amirite

That artist is known for his confirmational bias. His works aren't worth paying attention to.
Science and paleontology have become a meme. Rather than feathers being and interesting gap between dinosaurs and birds that needs future evidence nu-paleontologists got butthurt people thought scales looked cooler, so they've been running false info and making ridiculous claims like sauropodmorphs possibly having feathers and outright denying science in the case of T. Rex have scales confirmed over 90% of it's body with no evidence of feathers found.
Your pic is now scientifically in-accurate despite the buttblasted artist and T. Rex now would only have a patch of feathers on it's fucking shoulder blades if it had feathers, BUT IT'S GOTTA BECAUSE FEATHERS IS SCIENCE DURRRR

Dinosaurs spanned hundreds of millions of years. Feathers were a relatively late evolutionary innovation in the late triassic, and the truth is that we have little idea how common they were. In theropod dinos, they seem to be more common, but that doesn't mean all had them.

I'd go on a 'featherless until proven otherwise' basis.

giraffes are rodents.

Birbs are adorable, don't shit talk them.

Is this what dragons looked like?

nigga would accidentally burn its own feathers all the time

The KT extinction.

>chibi rex is best rex

HOL UP

*shits on your windshield right after you get out of the car wash*

CHIRP CHIRP

*perches on electric wire but is okay somehow*

YOU SAYIN

*scans for cats*

YOU SAYIN

*eats worm*

WE WUZ

*flies into window and dies*

DINOSAWRS AND SHIT?

Larger dinosaurs didn't have feathers and scientists don't actually think this. "Dinosaur" is a large taxonomic category. These proto-"feathers" probably developed into some other feature on the skin of a T-rex similar to scales and this differed from the little dinos.

Not all dinosaurs had feathers.

T Rex was LITERALLY a giant Budgie, deal with it sweetheart ;)

I think the feathers are cool. Like on the Velociraptor, it makes it look like it has a big punk Mohawk. Adds color too cuz before the dinosaurs were just a single bland color.

The feathers are theorized to have been for preservation of heat. So naturally the smaller the dinosaur the more feathery cover it had. Also only later Therapods would have had them so the Triassic and most of the Jurassic probably had no feathered dinosaurs. Only Raptors, medium sized therapods and the like probably had them, and only in the last 50 million years or so of the dinosaur age. If T-Rex had them, it was probably only the young who had a full coat while the adults probably only had perhaps so decorative feathers on their arms, legs, neck and tail.

I believe it's a Faverolles chicken, which is said, a French breed.

Pretty sure is a dude in a fucking chicken costume. The head doesn't move naturally if you look close.

>THIS
If you go into older museums like the Peabody (Near where I live) They still have the skeletons positioned that way.

Only the later stage ones and mostly just Therapods.

Pretty sure human legs don't bend that way, ya dunce.

This, wonderfully stated

Pigeons are the niggers of the bird world
>Lives primarily in cities
>Shits in the streets
>Always taking handouts from people on the street
>Fuck up people's nice stuff
>Move in packs everywhere

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that's a big cock...

Probably had something to do with the 6 mile space mountain that slammed into Mexico and cooked the planet at oven temperatures before plunging it into a hellish 1000 year winter.

What purpose would feathers/down serve for a t-rex? Didn't those things only evolve in smaller dinosaurs like raptors?

>ywn witness this event
Don’t care if it killed everything or close to everything. I just want to see that impact and aftermath

Here, have a tree

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It was so deadly that the only animals that survived lived inside holes, caves and bodies of water. The air got cooked. The living things on Earth today are animals descended only from animals that living in holes, caves or in water.

Then how did trees survive?Evolution disporven

ha

Seeds are underground you absolute cocksucker

Some trees were better adapted to survive the changing conditions.

Deciduous plants, which grow fast and lose their leaves at some point during the year, were better able to survive the changing conditions of an impact winter.

Evergreen plants, such as holly, tend to have leaves that are costly to construct but robust and long-lasting. Leaves of deciduous plants are short lived and more cheaply built, but easier to replace.

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The Brahma is a large breed of chicken developed in the United States from very large birds imported from the Chinese port of Shanghai. Brahma was the principal meat breed in the US from the 1850s until about 1930
youtube.com/watch?v=6H9dnIEwRl4

>shit that never happened

>Cooked the planet at oven temperatures
>Giant feathered dinosaurs

Aliens just wanted some KFC

fucking DINO JEWS

Gee, I wonder why most mammals in savannah or anywhere else have fur, might be really useless. huh

Soy

>'Muh childhood books' is more important than science

This is why we havent colonized space

Yes. Exactly.
Fuck science, we dinosaur waifu now

Feathers are a dinosaur thing, deal with it.

However, it has to be noted that feathers could develop into scale-like structures such as the scutes on bird legs. It's theoretically feasible that a dinosaur that evolved from a feathered genus could have scaly skin derived from feathers.

Thus, in theory, we cannot entirely eliminate that T.Rex had "scales". We have evidence from close relatives of both fluffy feathers, AND scale-like skin impressions. It's even possible that they had scaly skin beneath a fur-like coat of feathers.

What's also interesting is the possibility that many of the extremely close bird-relatives such as dromaeosaurids ("raptors", pic related) could've not actually evolved these scutes, resulting in complete feather coverings even on the feet.

By the way, bird-like raptors > scaly limp-wristed frog raptors

By the way, there were tiny raptors with motherfucking LEG WINGS

And we know for a fact that this one species had black iridescent feathers like a crow

How do leg wings work?

Black boi can't compete

Pic related.

On a serious note - something collided with Earth (or was close enough) to change electro magnetic charge of Earth and thus changing gravity leading to reduction of size all around the board.

They were arboreal (tree dwelling), most likely gliders. Fairly big, dinosaur flying squirrels basically.

Based on aerodynamic tests there are a couple different possible positions they could've used for gliding, but we can't say for sure. They definitely weren't capable of powered flight because they lacked the necessary musculature.

Wait.
So are you telling me that harpies actually exist.

nah I'm telling you there were little shiny cunts with wings on their legs

Also, this thing. What the fuck, nature.

That cat is a straight punk bitch

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The reduction is size came because of the lack of vegetation due to the lowered levels of oxygen. During dinosaur times the world was literally covered in Coniferous forests everywhere and those giant Sauropods would eat them non-stop every waking moment they had just to sustain their immense bodies. The predators only got so big cuz the plant eaters were so big. It wasn't gravity that limited mammals size, it was the lack of food and also having to dedicate large amounts of energy to keeping their own blood warm...

I did not know chickens did that..

it's nice to know that the killer instinct remains

>lowered levels of oxygen.
Hugeass sauropods existed during periods with lower amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere than today.

The main problem is simple anatomy. Dinosaurs, especially sauropods were just suited for being fuckhuge. The main reason why is coincidentally the same reason why birds make such good flyers, namely an extremely effective respiratory system, and fairly light bodies. If you have a mammal and a dinosaur of equal sizes, the mammal will significantly heavier.

>lowered levels of oxygen
You're confusing them with arthropods you idiot.

>Hugeass sauropods existed during periods with lower amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere than today.
Sure about that?

Heh.

>majestic
It can barely walk. It's the elephant man of the chicken.

The T-rex had a fully scaled body without feathers, we have multiple skin impressions from all over.

Yes, your graph is outdated

sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131118081043.htm

She sure knows her way around a big cock.

We haven't colonized space because brown people still exist

>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A BEE GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF

all cats are punk bitches.