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[FairyD]

Feathers > scales.

 

[tuna on toast]

That thing looks like the abominable snowman fucked a chicken.

 

[twobear]

feathered t-rex and pluto not being a planet are manbaby gaf's WORST NIGHTMARES

 

[zomaha]

Nope.

 

[Drencrom]

feathered t-rex and pluto not being a planet are manbaby gaf's WORST NIGHTMARES

Just wait until Michael Bay's TMNT movie is released.

 

[FairyD]

Just wait until Michael Bay's TMNT movie is released.

I will harvest the tears of fanboys and drink every drop.

 

[Amalthea]

70 million years in the future ant people will complain that they never will accept hairy reconstructions of mammals.

for life!

 

[Carbonox]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck off.

 

[The Anti-Monitor]

Maybe they had feathers in such a way that only made them more badass.

 

[CorvoSol]

Is feathered Dinosaurs the new Pluto? This is the new Pluto, isn't it?

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

feathered dinosaurs > nonfeathered dinosaurs.

 

[CornBurrito]

I love the rage.

It is like seeing people react to George Lucas special effect changes.

 

[MickeyKnox]

All this anti-feathered dinosaur sentiment is about as ridiculous as the Pluto is still a planet rhetoric from a few years back.

Get the fuck over it people.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

It's as if Rob Liefeld designed the legs.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Easy, breezy, beautiful, clever girl.

This is funny.

 

[Socreges]

I doubt many here cite their meme sources

Not asking him to. Was just weird seeing so many people quote his post when I thought it had been a staple for threads like these.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I think by now smart people have realized that its best to avoid these threads

I've nearly reached that point.

:/

 

[xbhaskarx]

Fuck you, science.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

I wrote a blog post about just this very phenomenon. Inspired mostly by threads like this on GAF: http://untidyramblings.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/dinosaur-feathers/

My theory is that reptiles have street cred because of cultural associations of danger and power, whereas birds do not. So people get angry when the science suggests that theropod dinosaurs are less reptilian than avian.

 

[Kientin]

I think they look way better feathered. I'm ok with this and my childhood is nodding in approval.

 

[Loxley]

Is feathered Dinosaurs the new Pluto? This is the new Pluto, isn't it?

Is their a Niel deGrasse Tyson of the Paleontology community? If so, I'd lie to think he/she has an inbox full of angry emails from disgruntled dinosaur enthusiasts talking about how Paleontologists have raped their childhood with this whole "dinosaurs had feathers" thing.

That shit needs to get published.

 

[Evolved1]

Easy, breezy, beautiful, clever girl.

I liked this. haha

 

[Sibylus]

Upright and slow dinosaurs have long been comical, methinks the Jurassic Park model, if not eventually comical, will become duly relegated to the pages of history. Loved the image that model evoked, but feathers and other aspects of birds evoke their own kind of terror.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Satan planted that one so that scientists would ruin our collective childhood.

 

[Pollux]

You know how Creationists say that the Devil planted dinosaurs and they're not real, yadda yadda ya? (Edit: beaten by the post above me no less. Damn. Oh well, my point still stands)

Well, that's how I feel about this T-Rex with FEATHERS BULLSHIT.

THIS IS T-REX:

NOT THIS PUNK-ASS FEATHERED MORON:

 

[cutmeamango]

Why would a huge animal have feathers? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? Or is that another type of feather? Explain this bullshit science, you are ruining Jurassic Park!

 

[kswiston]

Here is a feathered Deinonychus to go with the feathered T-Rex:

 

[Alucrid]

That's pretty bad-ass. How can people hate on the feathered dinosaurs?

 

[To Far Away Times]

Maybe all these feathered dinosaur fossils traveled on an astroid that broke off from the ninth planet in our solar system, Pluto.

Fuck you, scientists.

 

[kswiston]

Why would a huge animal have feathers? Wouldn't that be counterproductive? Or is that another type of feather? Explain this bullshit science, you are ruining Jurassic Park!

Feathers for thermoregulation, not flight. Same as Mammoths and Mastodons with fur.

Maybe all these feathered dinosaur fossils traveled on an astroid that broke off from the ninth planet in our solar system, Pluto.

Fuck you, scientists.

Pluto not being a planet is semantics. Dinosaurs with feathers is a fact. Be pissed at the previous scientists who filled your childhood with lies.

 

[Pollux]

Here is a feathered Deinonychus to go with the feathered T-Rex:

STOP IT!!!!!

 

[Blue Ninja]

Rest in peace, childhood. You shall be avenged.

 

[Regulus Tera]

People complaining about feathered dinosaurs are almost as bad as the people who kept on whining about Pluto's relegation from planet status.

 

[Leckan]

It was nice knowing you all.

 

[kswiston]

People complaining about feathered dinosaurs are almost as bad as the people who kept on whining about Pluto's relegation from planet status.

Worse. Humans defined a planet vs dwarf planet. They are all celestial bodies. The definition that separated the two categories was refined.

Dinosaurs with feathers are a reality with or without people. Might as well be pissed that the earth is round and has no edges to fall off of.

 

[BFIB]

Jesus. T-Rex has feathers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are now aliens, and Pluto is no longer a planet?

I don't want to live in this world anymore.

 

[The Atticus]

I reject this science.

 

[cutmeamango]

Feathers for thermoregulation, not flight. Same as Mammoths and Mastodons with fur.

B-b-but they weren't living in the ice ...

Oh, this is what I was thinking:

In spite of the downy feathers cloaking the earliest tyrannosaurs, probably not all tyrannosaurs would have been giant fuzz balls from hell. The larger an endothermic animal, the more heat it generates relative to the surface area of its body. Thus, mammals such as elephants and rhinoceroses have just a sparse coat of hair, because they need to radiate excess heat efficiently. A full-grown T. rex would have weighed about the same as a large African elephant, and so it is unlikely that the dinosaur would have benefited from extensive insulation. If T. rex was endothermic, though, a recently hatched T. rex, weighing only a few pounds, would be predicted to have been covered in insulating feathers, which were then shed as the animal grew [see illustration right].

All's well with the world, I guess.

 

[Gregorn]

I like things like this just because of the possibility that science could be wrong about loads of stuff. What if aliens!?

 

[noah111]

I remember when I was a kid, we were told "oh the dinosaurs might come in funny bright colors and patterns, maybe" and I thought to myself 'lame'. This is worse than that a hundred times fold.

 

[kswiston]

Keeping with the JP theme, here is the reality of velociraptor:

A lack of quill knobs does not necessarily mean that a dinosaur did not have feathers. Finding quill knobs on Velociraptor, though, means that it definitely had feathers. This is something we'd long suspected, but no one had been able to prove.

The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related dinosaur ancestors like velociraptor. Both have wishbones, brooded their nests, possess hollow bones, and were covered in feathers. If animals like velociraptor were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds

 

[Blue Ninja]

Keeping with the JP theme, here is the reality of velociraptor:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Vraptor-scale.png[IMG]

[IMG]http://www.itsallfitness.com/cavesadventure/Extinct_Animals/dinosaurs/velociraptor_mongoliensis.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

There is no God.

 

[Dan]

All this anti-feathered dinosaur sentiment is about as ridiculous as the Pluto is still a planet rhetoric from a few years back.

Get the fuck over it people.

Agreed. Science > nostalgia

 

[∀ Narayan]

I like things like this just because of the possibility that science could be wrong about loads of stuff. What if aliens!?

What if dinosaurs are aliens?

OH SHIT, I JUST OPENED A CAN OF WORMS, DIDN'T I?!

 

[SpectreFire]

Dinosaurs just look silly now.

 

[bengraven]

Story Here

 

[Pollux]

What if dinosaurs are aliens?

OH SHIT, I JUST OPENED A CAN OF WORMS, DIDN'T I?!

obligatory...

 

[strafer]

 

[Raist]

Anyone have any questions/concerns about this?

Why should we?

 

[Zoramon089]

DINOSAURS DIDN'T HAVE FEATHERS!
PLUTO IS A PLANET!!!