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CAN THEY LOAF?
I imagine it would have less feathers from the neck up, more like vultures have. But T-chonk is a dream
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
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They look way more badass with feathers.
It’s time to grow up and accept the truth
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Sounds like you're boring to me, feathered dinos are cool AF
Yeah, when science got around to it I felt very lied to - what delights we missed out on so many years of bad birb pop culture.
I mean ofc they were feathered to some extent, we just had to guess a lot of data over the decades.
Also, if cat-like predators can be cool (which they are), then so would be feathered dino movies.
Just install big cat software on a cassowary hardware modded for hunt.
Right?
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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.
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Behold, a man
Whoa heh a naked chick. Cool.
Thats no chick. Thats a cock!
Johnson! That looks just like a
Pecker! Wait, that's not a wood pecker it looks like someone's
Wang! Pay attention to the lesson. Why are you looking at that
Nahh, the feather makes them pop instead of being just giant lizards.
It also makes having pet velociraptors more fun
Feathered dinos are cooler
Dinos were basically Kevin's from Up.
What if the feathers were badass mohawks or liberty spikes you ever think of that
Science made the dinosaurs woke 🤬
Dude, they would have been literally running around naked before.
If anything, they became more conservative. ;-)
Why did the dino run away from the fight?
Because it was a big chicken.
Me too but I think it's more because I was 5 than anything to actually do with dinosaurs having feathers or not.
I knew cassowaries were dinosaurs.
Plus they were much smaller than depicted in movies. They are estimated to have weighed about 15 kg and were about 2m long, but over half of that was tail. A Border Collie has about the same body length and a much thicker build.
They were long, skinny murder turkeys.
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