waterore@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That statement should start with “in the past”. Recent depictions I’ve seen have them fully fleshed and feathered using up to date methods to create as accurate as possible models.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
That post is of course a billion years old itself and the images created by shrink-wrapping are still in people’s heads. Feathers on dinosaurs are rarely what people think of first as well and the notion has been around for quite a while.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 day ago
Feathers have been found on dinosaur fossils only “recently”, with the discovery of Sinosauropteryx in 1996Image
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
Sorry, not entirely sure what you’re saying?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 11 hours ago
I am claiming tkat the notion has been circulating only for the last 30 years.
FatVegan@leminal.space 23 hours ago
I mean the lizard dinosaurs are everywhere. Every toy, movie, even in schools.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Maybe they don’t fit under the term of “paleoartists” (they are artists of Paleolithic creatures) but the most popular modern depictions of dinosaurs are presumably the Jurrasic World movies, and I think they are almost universally lacking plumage. I’ve only seen the first, but the images I’ve seen I don’t have any feathered dinos. So, no. This is still an ongoing issue.
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
We even have ways to figure out their colouring in some cases now! Like this sinosauropteryx:
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khannie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s cool. How did they figure out the colouring?
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
They found preserved melanosomes. It was previously thought these were the remains of bacteria.
You can find details here, but I highly recommend reading Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World by Michael J. Benton, who was one of the ones doing the research. The book is very fun to read (he’s got that typical dry british humour) and it has absolutely lovely illustrations, including the one I linked above. And also this anurognathus that is the cutest thing ever:
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khannie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s cool. We’re going to look back at present views of dinosaurs with laughter it sounds like. Thanks for the answer. I’ll check out the book.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
omg look at it, it’s like a ferret with giant legs
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That guy sounds snotty.