Author Topic: The T-Rex actually had feathers?  (Read 6115 times)


I wonder how bad it was for the cavemen with flying t-rexes shooting giant laser beams at them from there eyes.

Fist of all, dinosaurs all died out long before humans, second, WTF?

OT: I see the striking similarity to birds now! :O


OP is the same person who believes bullstuff.
Source please.

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In 2004, the scientific journal Nature published a report describing an early tyrannosauroid, Dilong paradoxus, from the famous Yixian Formation of China. As with many other theropods discovered in the Yixian, the fossil skeleton was preserved with a coat of filamentous structures which are commonly recognized as the precursors of feathers. It has also been proposed that Tyrannosaurus and other closely related tyrannosaurids had such protofeathers. However, skin impressions from large tyrannosaurid specimens show mosaic scales.[68] While it is possible that protofeathers existed on parts of the body which have not been preserved, a lack of insulatory body covering is consistent with modern multi-ton mammals such as elephants, hippopotamus, and most species of rhinoceros. As an object increases in size, its ability to retain heat increases due to its decreasing surface area-to-volume ratio. Therefore, as large animals evolve in or disperse into warm climates, a coat of fur or feathers loses its selective advantage for thermal insulation and can instead become a disadvantage, as the insulation traps excess heat inside the body, possibly overheating the animal. Protofeathers may also have been secondarily lost during the evolution of large tyrannosaurids like Tyrannosaurus, especially in warm Cretaceous climates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-rex#Skin_and_feathers

You mean,

...When, the forget.
That's such a douche time traveler thing to say.

Kudos if you know what that is from.

That's such a douche time traveler thing to say.

Kudos if you know what that is from.
Family Guy.


The goddamn scariest flightless bird in earth's history.
(Or, wait, does that classify it as a bird? Do any other non-bird animals have feathers?...)

The goddamn scariest flightless bird in earth's history.
i dunno man, penguins are pretty creepy

T-rex lost there cool

Another thread full of idiots trying to comprehend serious scientific stuff.


The goddamn scariest flightless bird in earth's history.
(Or, wait, does that classify it as a bird? Do any other non-bird animals have feathers?...)
The dodo was the scariest flightless bird in earth's history, thank you very much.

Actually it looks even more badass in those feathers.