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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks about as terrifying as they behave with feathers.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I can confirm their geese cousins know who they are under those feathers.

[–] djsp@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is a little bit unfair to paleoartists. A lot of the drawings people are most familiar with came from a time when there was less evidence for feathers. They absolutely update drawings as more fossils are found that change the picture, but we don't always go and look at the newest art. Just how much feather cover specific dinosaurs would have had is still a bit unknown but it's unlikely they would have had anywhere near as much feather cover as modern birds.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have to disagree with that last point. Dinosaurs lasted a LONG time, and while.early dinosaurs certainly had little feather coverage, such as stegosaurus, later dinosaurs, such as yutyrannus and therozinosaurus, were absolutely covered.

Now, there were not "feathers", but feather like structures that eventually evolved into feathers in their descendants

[–] Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's a feather like structure look like?

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Small, flaky scales that protruded out from the body

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Sounds like reptiles to me. Something like a sort of cross between fish and snakes?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I love the art in Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. Such an amazing book!



(Sinosauropteryx, archeopteryx and anurognathus. And BTW the colours are accurate. We can find out now.)

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but that last one is just so fucking goofy looking. If that thing came to attack me I would just die of laughter and it would then be able to eat me.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Why would it attack you? It was the size of a budgie. Really doubt a budgie would be able to eat you no matter how hard it would try.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, really depends on the time period. Bugs are a surprisingly bad frame of size reference depending on the time period. Tha little insect might actually be human sized ^^'

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Who knows. Animals can behave strangely sometimes. I also missed the bug so I had no idea how big it would be.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a successful hunting tactic to me

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

Majestic creatures

[–] keen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

We believe you.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 months ago

Username checks out, eh?

[–] Kompressor@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I hate its little zergling arms.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Kinda captures their essential nature, though. The fluff is pretty deceptive.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Damn, just figured out what All Tomorrows is sort of made to look like

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Those pokemon are metal as fuck.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

It's triggering some sort of primal fear response in me. Which, honestly, I think is a good thing.

[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes because paleoartists have never encountered a wing structure