Industrial grade borb
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
Holy fluffin chirpball !!
Feathered dinos are cool as shit.
They look way more badass with feathers.
It’s time to grow up and accept the truth
Anyone who complains about this are the same people who whinged about the change of Pluto’s status as a planet.
In that, they are clinging to nostalgia instead of embracing a new, wondrous truth. Feathers and fur on dinosaurs shows an entirely new way of imagining the world before us, just like Pluto’s downgrade was simply because we found potentially thousands of more Pluto’s.
I think a lot of people broadly are insecure about change right now. Stability feels precious, and this nostalgic retreat is being leveraged by anti-science groups.
For real though - people will insist that Pluto is a planet but not even know about Eris.
Ceres is super cool though I will always have a spot for Pluto.
Makemake is rad though, so fast it warped.
There is a fantastic array of worldlets out there. I am so excited for Lucy and getting first glimpses of worlds we’ve never seen like the Trojans dragged along by Jupiter. We are so fortunate to be in an age where we get to see these sights. I feel like it’s easy to forget just how amazing this entire thing is, that we’re seeing the surface of places beyond Earth… and so far most of them have been unique and surprising in some way.
Pluto actually got a promotion to the King of the dwarf planets, rather than the least of the rocky planets.
I’ve also just now decided that all those spiny backed donosors? They were just dummy thicc and they needed extra spine bone to support all that cheek
Hey!! Don’t bash Team Pluto!!!
Pluto is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful world. I will never forget the awe I felt when I saw the first images when New Horizons blasted past it, the colors and textures and vivid landscapes and variety and hazy atmosphere layers, an utter treat, literally brought tears to my eyes that I got to see something I thought I would never see in my lifetime.
All that said, it’s fine it’s been reclassified, it takes nothing away from the world and the dwarf planets are ALL interesting and worth admiring.
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.
Building the animatronics, filming, and editing still take time. According to Wikipedia, filming took place entirely in 1992 and post-production ended in May 1993.
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.
Sounds like you’re boring to me, feathered dinos are cool AF
Right?
Indeed
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.
Did you make the minis yourself?
I just printed out paper tokens and laminated them.
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
Not me, I am very, VERY happy.
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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
God dammit Donut!
I knew cassowaries were dinosaurs.
