The Picard ManeuverFull circle
RebekahWSDI like feathered dinosaurs. I like imagining them being very colorful!
cattywampasI am saddened that we will probably never know about not only all the cool colors and feathers that dinosaurs had, but also the various fleshy structures that they also probably had.
We do, actually!. Recent research proved there are melanosomes in some fossils/imprints, which were previously thought to be bacteria. This gives us a fairly good idea of the colouring of certain species. Check out this sinosauropteryx:
I highly recommend reading the book Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. It’s fun to read, has amazing illustrations and was written by one of the people who discovered this.
Dope, I’m adding this to my reading list!
That is so cool!
That guy looks fren shaped.
Half moth, half frog, half cheetah!
LogicalDrivelMogtah?
Cheemog?
This is what I imagine an owlbear looked like
OwlFeathers, but very simple ones. Remember - feathers haven’t evolved for flight. No idea how cuddly they were (you’d have to ask a paleontologist), but I’m just going to assume “extremely”.
What’s the difference between simple filament like feathers and hair?
I imagine it’s rather like hatchling down, and if so, it’s very brittle, and makes for a lot of dust.
Just ordered the book. Thank you!
The author of this book, Professor Benton has done talks on this youtu.be/ICzc8D0zQC0
Dinosaurs New Visions of a Lost World
Fun fact, they’ve done studies searching for pigments and found that dinosaur eggs, at least, were colorful like modern bird eggs.
I for one like theropod chickens.
Scaling up a regular chicken always seemed more realistic & intimidating.
negativenullImagine a T-Rex, bobbing its head while walking around, like a chicken
Well, no, due to it’s size, but maybe having it’s eyes closed while moving the head to not tax the brain too much (that chicken bobbing was a solution to allow the brain to be smaller & more efficient bcs simply stabilising the head & processing the image/objects in 3D space while only the those objects move but the viewers POV is stationary is way more efficient than calculating the POV’s movements in real time too).
This doesn’t make any sense when you consider that birds hold their heads still while flying and are very good at spotting things on the ground while doing it. The reason I know for why birds bob their heads is that they can’t move their eyes in their sockets. So they both their head forward the same way our eyes will jump from position to position rather than move smoothly, it minimizes the blur you get from rapid movements.
When flying all objects are fairly far so it’s like their POV isn’t really moving (it’s not a yes/no, it’s by how much).
On the ground the distances are a lot smaller & more relevant.
If they bobbed their had bcs of their limited eye socket movement (they can move them a little, some species a lot) they wouldn’t do it when not changing the direction of where they are looking.
(It’s prob also why you can hypnotise a chicken in a second with one move of your finger but not eg a parrot with more brain buffer.)
But we all do it, humans (prob mammals) have this trick when you “lose time” when calm & moving the eyes and/or head from one object to another. We don’t perceive it as such unless you look for it (you don’t remember the details of the panning - but you do when eg playing sports). A bit like you stop processing your nose in your fov.
Jo MiranAnybody that’s grown up around chickens knows how terrifying a territorial rooster can be.
samus12345Ikr? A big chicken would eat me like a snack just opportunistically (maybe some ultra specialised species like pigeons wouldn’t, but chickens def would, they eat everything).
AllNewTypeFace
10/10 would revenge-crap on your car.
From my understanding, fossilized skin evidence suggests that T. rex had few feathers, if any.
T. rex was unfeathered (or at least the adults were) but other members of the Tyrannosaurus family were partly or fully feathered. Yutyrannus, for example.
It was the trend then.
MulligrubsChickens are awful creatures, a giant one would fuck you up for absolutely no reason
This is chicken slander, they’re chill af once you get them to trust you.
Roosters are demons though.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Beware the giant cock!
Chickens are awful creatures, a giant one would fuck you up for absolutely no reason
But if we Jurassic park these mutherfuckers I guarantee KFC would start serving up Kentucky Fried Dinosaur.
Man they’d probably taste fricken awesome. And the occasional news story of a battery farm of dinosaurs getting mass released into the environment, towns getting overrun by giant feathered dinosaurs would be a sight to see.
“I like my imagination more than I like learning about nature”
Feathers are fucking rad and I can’t wait for more weird critter traits
MinnesotaGoddamForgot about prehensile eye stalks and stank glands tho
Ok, but why the faces?
Just finished watching The Dinosaurs series, narrated by Morgan Freeman. I enjoyed the series overall, though I do find it difficult to suspend my disbelief and stop wondering what shit they completely made up, what has a firm scientific basis, and the extent to which the current understanding will be laughable in 20 years.