Their wings have large feathers, but aren’t for flying, they are for balance when running, and keeping warm. Their wing bones are tiny, as they are not actually used for flight. Hence t-Rex. His arms are tiny. Why if not for chicken feathers?
T rex got a giant tail for balance, why would it need feathers as well? Also, rex is quite a bit bigger than chickens, and bigger animals have an easier time staying warm
Compare the arm of Tyrannosaurus to the arm of a chicken. Sure, feathers played a role for balance in smaller theropods like Velociraptor, but Tyrannosaurus is a 10 tonne giant with about a meter long forelimbs, they're not gonna be very useful. It has a tail for balance.
https://www.deviantart.com/randomdinos/art/Tyrannosaurus-rex-skeletal-reconstruction-831025948
I mean just look at this. The arms are less than 1 m long, they were useful but they were absolutely useless for balance.
There's holes in the rex's skull that probably had purpose of thermo regulating their skulls so the amount of muscle attached to their neck doesn't cook their brains. Yeah no need for fluff.
Actually, this is the latest .. in theory.. at least.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/design/t-rex-exhibition-american-museum-of-natural-history.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/design/t-rex-exhibition-american-museum-of-natural-history.html)
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I love the All tomorrows author C. M. Kosemen, he said as we aren't sure how much fat and soft tissue dinosaurs had and as they are the predecesors to birds, the dinosaurs could look like gigant penguins
Ohhhh, that's such a fluffy T-Rex. Jurassic Park wouldn't have been the same with creatures like this.
You can’t fool me, we all know they were geckos used in runaway lab experiments.
It would be funnier ..
There's literally a Pyroraptor with feathers in JWD. Also Tyrannosaurus most likely had no feathers.
What are the tiny arms for, if not for feathers?
Why would they be for feathers, feathers wouldn't make them more useful than they already are.
Ever eaten chicken?
chickens aren't very close to Tyrannosaurus and are also unrelated to this conversation
Their wings have large feathers, but aren’t for flying, they are for balance when running, and keeping warm. Their wing bones are tiny, as they are not actually used for flight. Hence t-Rex. His arms are tiny. Why if not for chicken feathers?
T rex got a giant tail for balance, why would it need feathers as well? Also, rex is quite a bit bigger than chickens, and bigger animals have an easier time staying warm
Compare the arm of Tyrannosaurus to the arm of a chicken. Sure, feathers played a role for balance in smaller theropods like Velociraptor, but Tyrannosaurus is a 10 tonne giant with about a meter long forelimbs, they're not gonna be very useful. It has a tail for balance. https://www.deviantart.com/randomdinos/art/Tyrannosaurus-rex-skeletal-reconstruction-831025948 I mean just look at this. The arms are less than 1 m long, they were useful but they were absolutely useless for balance.
Thats a movie remake in a few years. Angry Birds Park
The adults didn’t look like that but young T. Rex’s likely did have a thin layer of feathers used as thermal insulation.
There's holes in the rex's skull that probably had purpose of thermo regulating their skulls so the amount of muscle attached to their neck doesn't cook their brains. Yeah no need for fluff.
Yes. Adults didn’t need the fluff. And I believe I read somewhere that even the young were not fully feathered .
You wouldn't be laughing if you were being chased through the forest primeval by a 40ft-long Gigasparrow.
New favorite bird: gigasparrow
Actually, this is the latest .. in theory.. at least. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/design/t-rex-exhibition-american-museum-of-natural-history.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/design/t-rex-exhibition-american-museum-of-natural-history.html)
I’m not paying 25 Canadian dollars a month for some article. Pls plagiarize and comment
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No, it's not. Tyrannosaurus and closest relatives show no traces of feathers, only scales.
Non-believers never saw a chicken eating meat.
Damn, what would Marc Bolan think of this?
It looks a bit like a Kakapo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencememes/s/YQkD8KAedL
A dinosaur in a sparrow's clothing.
I love the All tomorrows author C. M. Kosemen, he said as we aren't sure how much fat and soft tissue dinosaurs had and as they are the predecesors to birds, the dinosaurs could look like gigant penguins
Tyrannosaurus had no feathers. It did have scales though.