T-rex was essentially a giant chicken

[AdamWarlock]

Some dinosaurs have been proven to have had feathers due to impressions on the bones that are consistent with feathers and/or fused tail vertebrae that is indication of feathering.

The velociraptor, made famous by Jurassic park, was feathered. About the size of a large turkey tho, around 35-45 lbs. Not something to mess with, but nothing like the scaly 7 foot tall lizards portrayed in the films

impressions on the bones? what does that even mean

unless there's feather imprints on the bone or near the bone, how do you determine if there was feather just by bone alone?

 

[7even]

 

[Fake Doctor]

That's so lame. I can't believe I've been living in fear of these things all these years

Chickens are soulless killing machines. If one was big enough to threaten you it should be the stuff of nightmares. This makes me more scared of t-rexes

 

[SurferH2O]

That's so lame. I can't believe I've been living in fear of these things all these years

Totally bro, you would have body slammed one of those giant chickens and they had an amazing fry afterwards.

It would have sucked to be torn apart by a giant chicken. I'll stick to being scared of Great Whites.

 

[BKMMAFAN]

Chickens are soulless killing machines. If one was big enough to threaten you it should be the stuff of nightmares. This makes me more scared of t-rexes

Just look at a Cassowary. You get kicked by one of those you may as well be getting clawed by a modern day raptor/dinosaur.

 

[Thrawn33]

Until I see a Dino cloned I'm going with the Terrible Lizard mindset

 

[aus101]

I don't buy the feathered Rex theory. While some small Dino's had feathers we have scaly impressions of Rex skin, and other Dino's, like Ankylosaurs, were certainly not.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/

 

[ringking1982]

They will come up with something totally different next year.

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

T rex went extinct when that comet hit the earth and deep fried all the dinosaurs with oils from inside the earth
This was where the idea for fried chicken came from.

 

[William Huggins]

T rex went extinct when that comet hit the earth and deep fried all the dinosaurs with oils from inside the earth
This was where the idea for fried chicken came from.

I heard it was that delish Dino BBQ and buckets of Shrooms that helped humans evolve in to being able to make Pizza.........

 

[Kingz]

Dr. Grant was right

 

[armbarforhire]

After the initial delusion I actually think Dinos being birds is scarier than them being reptiles.

You see how agressive roosters are, add teeth, size probably scarier than a 2 legged crocodile.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

They might have had feathers in mating season and then the feathers fell off and left with with lizard like hides that would slowly grow in

Thus making them both feathered and non feathered

 

[Sano]

Virtually identical.

Btw, if you want to see something fascinating, look at this rare bird. I thought for sure it was an animatronic at first, talk about prehistoric.

 

[fingercuffs]

I mean, even that image is likely inaccurate. We don't really even know if they had a reptillian appearance. Dinos had the anatomy of birds, so is there really anything to say they weren't just giant birds?

Even then when we first started studying them researchers completely misassembled them. The reptillian design was already based around a false image because they were originally poorly assembled. When they 'figured it out' they decided to keep the reptile appearance even though it didn't have a strong basis in reality. Even with the feathered dino theory they maintain some lizard features. Has anyone even seen a bird with reptilian skin irl? Below is the fake dino statues constructed at Crystal Palace. This never existed. Even then we could still be putting the bones together wrong. Who decides whether the fossil exhibit is standing upright or in a slouched position? Why would the above T-rex's feathers be covering its arms? It hardly seems useful?

This came up as a question on The Wheel earlier, husband and I worked it out. Yes, smug but multiple choice.

 

[fingercuffs]

Maybe the meat will be close to like ostrich meat

Arguably my favourite steak.

 

[Jesus X]

MY LIFE WAS A LIE!

 

[AbominableJoman]

I’ve never been impressed by trex and this really doesn’t help…

 

[PBAC]

1. Experts who study dinosaur fossils, and the fossils of other animals, whose expertise in the field is light years beyond some people on the internet with no education, put them together. I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing. And I’m pretty sure the way the bones fit together informs whether or not the animal walked upright. Mainly, the hip bone.

2. I doubt T-Rex’s feathers would be covering its arms. But idk because I’m not an expert in that field. Also, it’s possible that the T-Rex didn’t have feathers at all. They were found on one of its ancestors, preserved in a volcano eruption. However, dinosaurssoc were around for a long time and the t-Rex could have, after millions of years of evolution, had no feathers.

oi. light yearw advanced

Virtually identical.

Btw, if you want to see something fascinating, look at this rare bird. I thought for sure it was an animatronic at first, talk about prehistoric.

some dinos are notably acceptped to be totally bird like and really booked/or are believed to have looked just like bird. That ak47 wielding bird is really no different.

Here is Gallimimus apparently, we think ...

What gets me is why do they downplay the wings so much if flightless birds are in the minority? Is there a correlations between the fact that larger birds don't fly but still have wings,. Why is evolution fucking with them like that? Doesn't it make sense that if rex was a bird then his tiny arms could just be wing bones?

 

[ssBaldy]

I mean, even that image is likely inaccurate. We don't really even know if they had a reptillian appearance. Dinos had the anatomy of birds, so is there really anything to say they weren't just giant birds?

Even then when we first started studying them researchers completely misassembled them. The reptillian design was already based around a false image because they were originally poorly assembled. When they 'figured it out' they decided to keep the reptile appearance even though it didn't have a strong basis in reality. Even with the feathered dino theory they maintain some lizard features. Has anyone even seen a bird with reptilian skin irl? Below is the fake dino statues constructed at Crystal Palace. This never existed. Even then we could still be putting the bones together wrong. Who decides whether the fossil exhibit is standing upright or in a slouched position? Why would the above T-rex's feathers be covering its arms? It hardly seems useful?

There is no evidence of adult T-rexes having feathers. Skin imprints found show zero feathering. They found feathered raptors that were tiny compared to a T-rex and some enthusiastic idiots started feathering every species.
A feathered creature the size of T-rex in a warm climate would overheat rapidly and die. Most likely even the giant sloths of South America were bald, lol.
The only possible feathered tyrannosaurid was the species that lived in the arctic, I forget it's name.