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CAN THEY LOAF?
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
I imagine it would have less feathers from the neck up, more like vultures have. But T-chonk is a dream
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They look way more badass with feathers.
It’s time to grow up and accept the truth
Agreed. It always irked me that the ancestors of birds look more like lizards than birds, when the ancestors of crocodiles looked pretty much the same.
Me neither, before I saw the first feathered life-size replicas in dino parks.
And I have to say, they were somehow way more scary than their naked counterparts in my opinion.
So now I am Team Feather!
Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with an enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.
visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.
But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height
Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that's what they are, but Crichton and/or Spielberg just thought "velociraptor" was a cooler name.
The book came out in 1990.
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Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.
They'd still be large for cassowaries, just not the size of a truck.
But yes, that'd be terrifying.
Also relevant: https://youtu.be/U49R3Gqx8lw
Edit: oh, holy shit I didn't know cassowaries were that big
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
Yeah, geese are terrifying and already come with "teeth".
Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.
Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you...
I turned our geese into attack dogs when was 3 because they liked me but no one else. This resulted in at least one instance of my uncle (moms younger brother) being chased around by five pissed off geese. I have respected feathered creatures ever since.
I bet some of their patterns would be so beautiful and mesmerizing that you just stand there admiring it until you get chomped up.
I am also having a great time picturing dinosaurs having wacky feather patterns, dances, and habits for mating. I collected you ferns and frilled my feathers please respond.
You'd like Prehistoric Planet (1 & 2), if you haven't seen it. It's really, really good.
A few years ago I created a small pen & paper roleplaying game for my kids to play as dinosaurs. They very much wanted their dinosaurs to be feathered. The kids are alright.
My daughter's young T-Rex:
That T-rex looks cool.
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Behold, a man
Whoa heh a naked chick. Cool.
Nahh, the feather makes them pop instead of being just giant lizards.
It also makes having pet velociraptors more fun
Feathered dinos are cooler
Dinos were basically Kevin's from Up.
Me too but I think it's more because I was 5 than anything to actually do with dinosaurs having feathers or not.
What if the feathers were badass mohawks or liberty spikes you ever think of that
Mongo is appalled!
I came here to make sure there was a DCC reference
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I knew cassowaries were dinosaurs.
They also had cheeks!
I have a pet parrot. If that little 10oz, 8” motherfucker was my size we would all be fucked. Even at his size he can do damage, and when he’s mad he’s vicious. I’ve seen chickens fight each other or go after a bug. Those fuckers are dinosaurs.
Plus they were much smaller than depicted in movies. They are estimated to have weighed about 15 kg and were about 2m long, but over half of that was tail. A Border Collie has about the same body length and a much thicker build.
They were long, skinny murder turkeys.
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Now I'm even more disappointed that I wasn't around to see them!
Personally for me having the comfort of modern life beats getting to live with dinosaurs, but no judgement.
You wouldn't miss what you never knew. The comfort of modern life creates more problems for every one that it solves.
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I've never really liked the lizardy type of dinosaur, so I am actually happy that they are feathered
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