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[paragonpro]

Feathers? On my dino's? Gtfo.

 

[levious]

This is why so many people are pushing the false narrative

Just because you believe dinosaurs look better with feathers doesn't mean they actually had feathers

Lol this is starting to be as bad as the flat earthers and moon landing deniers.

 

[CrudeDiatribe]

wtf, so we thought dinosaurs didn't have feathers for all this time, now that we think they do we find proof like a year later

A full archaeopteryx specimen with feathers was discovered in 1861. Similar discoveries were 'early birds' and not 'dinosaurs'. With time and more evidence the distinction proves to be false.

 

[Waddle Dee]

Is WorldStar normally like this...?

The people who whine about feathered dinosaurs remind me of people who won't let go of Dr. Eggman not being called Robotnik anymore.

Haha, so true!

 

[RareFantasy64]

What if some had feathers and some didn't?

 

[tuxfool]

This is why so many people are pushing the false narrative

Just because you believe dinosaurs look better with feathers doesn't mean they actually had feathers

Is this some kind on-going parody?

I dont mind the feathers. Im just not a fan of the piddly looking bird faces on some of those depictions. The reptile look with feathers is pretty badass but the giant bird look is not.

They sounded like some birds too. They probably didn't roar, they honked.

http://earthsky.org/earth/what-did-dinosaurs-sound-like

 

[gutter_trash]

What if some had feathers and some didn't?

I think that is probable depending on species,

 

[Stormhammer]

what if some of the dinosaurs we recreate with the bones have had their bones mismatched and we've done it all wrong

 

[Unit 33]

Clone the fucker.

 

[buttery fistful]

FTFY

 

[Derwind]

wtf, so we thought dinosaurs didn't have feathers for all this time, now that we think they do we find proof like a year later

We've had feather imprints left behind in the stone fossils of dinosaurs, we have several pieces of evidence that show the transition between dinosaurs & birds..

We've been well aware that many Dino species had feathers, even if people's nostalgia of a Hollywood blockbuster gets in the way of their reasoning skills.

 

[Jorok Goldblade]

I remember in the eighties when T-Rex dragged it's tail on the ground, and we thought all dinos had a secondary ass-brain. Science is a good thing.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Is this some kind on-going parody?


They sounded like some birds too. They probably didn't roar, they honked.

http://earthsky.org/earth/what-did-dinosaurs-sound-like

I think eagles sound pretty cool.
A giant eagle would sound pretty badass. They were so big I doubt the word we would use to describe hearing one would be honk.

Also. That was one ancient bird they found. Not a dino. Lots of maybes thrown around in that article.

 

[CloudyTuba]

I don't think you remember that movie as well as you do... watch the part where they see the dinosaurs for the first time, it looks like a Resident Evil 1 PSX cutscene...

Only the animatronic versions stand up.

Yes, I can see the resemblance.

 

[DragonGirl]

You know, the anti feathered dinosaurs memes are..so tired..so very very tired. Harambe is fresh and clever by comparison. Can we just give it a rest already?

It's the saddest thing to walk into a thread about an exciting discovery only to have the whole thing shit up by people who mistakenly think they're funny. Go ask Trump to make your rubber movie lizards great again.

 

[thebeeks]

#TeamFeathers all the way, and I say this as someone who considers Jurassic Park to be their favorite movie.

what if some of the dinosaurs we recreate with the bones have had their bones mismatched and we've done it all wrong

What? No. Never. 😏

 

[Acerac]

I prefer feelings over facts, thank you very much. Keep your dirty science away from me!

 

[Grym]

Ahhhh....feathered dinosaurs. The original fake news. So much nostalgia

/s

 

[Speedydonut]

feather denying is just as bad climate denying.

 

[triplestation]

omg look they found a feathered bird from a million years ago

 

[Eusis]

I prefer feelings over facts, thank you very much. Keep your dirty science away from me!

But you are science. You breathe it, you eat it, you live it. No escape!

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Feathers can look fucking dope

 

[NastyBook]

Who? Who would even think to do this?

LMFAO!

 

[Meier]

What's the background scene from?

The walk reminds me of that one guy from Dexter who hated Dexter but I have nothing to go on.

It's from Dexter when a police sergeant named Doakes sneaks up on him. He thinks Dexter is withholding info in a murder case (he is of course very correct). He says, "Surprise mothafucka" in Dexter.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

I'm going to make sure I'm buried in amber with feathers sticking out of my bones, just to fuck with future post-apocalyptic mole people archaeologists.

 

[Jobbs]

Clever TLG marketing?

 

[GuyKazama]

Nobody knows shit, the science is too new. One year, they all had feathers, the next, feathers are in the minority.

2014:

Almost all dinosaurs were probably covered in feathers, Siberian fossils of a tufted, two-legged running dinosaur dating from roughly 160 million years ago suggest.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140724-feathered-siberia-dinosaur-scales-science/

2015:

But while many meat-eating theropods, such as velociraptors and relatives of tyrannosaurs, were clearly clad in feathers, a fresh analysis of prehistoric remains suggests that most dinosaurs were scaly beasts after all.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...scales-not-feathers-fossil-analysis-concludes

 

[LiK]

I thought it was about Trump's head

 

[Dali]

Feathered Dinosaurs are cool as fuck. Definitely don't understand the hate

It's because they go from jurassic park to ostriches.

 

[Toa TAK]

It's because they go from jurassic park to ostriches.

That's Jurassic Park's fault, tho.

 

[kswiston]

Nobody knows shit, the science is too new. One year, they all had feathers, the next, feathers are in the minority.

2014:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140724-feathered-siberia-dinosaur-scales-science/

2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/science...scales-not-feathers-fossil-analysis-concludes

All of the cool carnivorous ones are the ones that were covered in feathers. Neither of your links dispute this, and this has been know for close to 20 years now. The only debate is whether ornithischian dinosaurs had some sort of protofeathers as well.

 

[SoldnerKei]

hmmm... but what if a bird was also caught in the amber huh?

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

As much as I like scaly dinos, Dr. Wu is right.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

It's because they go from jurassic park to ostriches.

Pretty much. Im not about to deny any solid evidence and if it comes back and says all dinos had feathers and looked like big birds (they didnt), I will accept that fact. It doesnt change the fact that dinosaurs would no longer be as cool as I thought they were. And since I loved dinos because of how I thought they looked, acted and sounded, I am allowed to not be happy with these findings and suggestions.

 

[WorldStar]

Pretty much. Im not about to deny any solid evidence and if it comes back and says all dinos had feathers and looked like big birds (they didnt), I will accept that fact. It doesnt change the fact that dinosaurs would no longer be as cool as I thought they were. And since I loved dinos because of how I thought they looked, acted and sounded, I am allowed to not be happy with these findings and suggestions.

Even calling them "findings" is fairly generous

 

[Hatty]

It's because they go from jurassic park to ostriches.

What's wrong with that? ostriches are rad.


Look at this cool guy:

 

[kswiston]

Even calling them "findings" is fairly generous

WTF?

They are literally finding this stuff in the earth.

 

[Speedydonut]

 

[darklin0]

This attitude about the feathers is exactly the same attitude that caused Trump to win.

 

[Disxo]

But then they put a price on the emus head.

And the second emu war was won.

 

[phaonaut]

I really like this shirt and some of the others made by the discovery institute, too bad its such a terrible message. Just something funny about the devil burying dino bones.

edit: Like this one. I don't believe it, I just like the look of it. I'd buy one if I didnt think I was helping their cause.

 

[Morts]

In the era of "climate change is a Chinese hoax" Dino-feather denial becomes a lot less cute.

 

[Septimus Prime]

Imagine all the other fossils that are now lost forever because they were mistakenly sold off as worthless trinkets.

Probably just a dirty pigeon flew into an ihop trashcan in August.

So, they just flew into IHOP?

 

[LookAtMeGo]

In the era of "climate change is a Chinese hoax" Dino-feather denial becomes a lot less cute.

Sure. But the denial of dino feathers wont kill us all. But I see what you're saying.

 

[sazzy]

wtf, so we thought dinosaurs didn't have feathers for all this time, now that we think they do we find proof like a year later

this.

its very fishy.

 

[adamsappel]

because now they don't look like they did in Jurassic Park, the movie they grew up with.

it's like someone retconned history.

I grew up in the '70s, and I once got in trouble in school for not coloring my dinosaur with a brown or green crayon. I would have been expelled if I'd drawn feathers on them.

Feathers? On my dino's? Gtfo.

It's more likely than you think!

what if some of the dinosaurs we recreate with the bones have had their bones mismatched and we've done it all wrong

This has happened before. We used to think dinosaurs dragged their tails because museums posed the bones that way. The Brontosaurus never existed. Or, did it?

 

[GuyKazama]

All of the cool carnivorous ones are the ones that were covered in feathers. Neither of your links dispute this, and this has been know for close to 20 years now. The only debate is whether ornithischian dinosaurs had some sort of protofeathers as well.

There's been evidence for 30+ years of the existence of feathers, but it is still early. The debate is also still open as to the amount of feathers. It is likely that the feathers on large dinosaurs were barely visible or just in patches, and varied based on climate. Yutyrannus, for example, could be completely covered or just in spots. There is little direct evidence for feathers on many dinosaur species vs. the other information we have been collecting on them for the past 200 years.

 

[spekkeh]

I'm so conflicted. The news about feathered dinosaurs makes me really sad but this gif makes me really happy.

 

[Weevilone]

I thought the dinosaur bones were planted by the devil, so humans would think evolution was a thing.

If so, this is nothing new.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Why are we posting fake news stories now?