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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So without their feathers they look like they act?

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hope what you’re implying is that swan feathers are a suit made to deceive humans from their obvious lizard people pet agenda, and that Big Feather needs to be held accountable. I’ve already booked guests for the podcast and have 17 articles in my substack,

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I want to see a Jurassic Park movie where it’s just geese and swans breaking out of captivity, and mildly annoying everyone.

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• waterore@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We even have ways to figure out their colouring in some cases now! Like this sinosauropteryx:

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s cool. How did they figure out the colouring?

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      omg look at it, it’s like a ferret with giant legs

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That guy sounds snotty.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah, we have some absolutely amazing art these days. i particularly love this type of depiction of dromaeosaurs: Just MASSIVE birds with teeth instead of beaks and huge claws, they feel very… cromulent…

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Feathers have been found on dinosaur fossils only “recently”, with the discovery of Sinosauropteryx in 1996Image

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    • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean the lizard dinosaurs are everywhere. Every toy, movie, even in schools.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1000013325

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A giant chicken, truly terrifying.Image

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  New pokemon looks different

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s neck is tied into a fucking knot 😂

      That said though, this birb slaps. Really high power and good typing for the early game

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• sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Choose Goose is looking rough.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am both frightened and aroused

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• Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  crazy how there’s billion dollar movies that game embarrassingly incorrect dinosaurs in them

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Movies often align to the popular perception if a thing rather than reality. Otherwise you’re watching a documentary.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s not like documentaries aren’t plenty popular, that recent series on dinosaurs (walking with dinosaurs, i think?) with our homeboy David Attenborough was hyped as fuck, no cap, on god, etc

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    • Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dino DNA!

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While the look is based in old misconceptions of dinosaur biology, the Jurassic Park dinos lacking feathers actually works really well for the story. They were never meant to be real dinosaurs. They’re just theme park attractions, so of course they look how the customers expect them to. Just like how most of them aren’t even from the Jurassic period.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren’t really bothered about the fact that they aren’t actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn’t want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.

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• veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those old-paleoartists were really unfettered.

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  • scott_anon_21@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🤣

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is so outdated it’s wrong.

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it all the dinosaurs? Or just ones from specific eras that likely had feathers? Ill try to find ou5 myself later. But if anybody has a link to something akin to “feathered dinos for dummies” id love to check it out

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From what i’ve seen it’s basically 50/50 if any one species had a significant amount of feathers, but feathers do seem to have existed in the earliest dinosaur ancestor so it could maybe potentially show up in any species.

    Then you can get more detailed and memorize which kinds of dinosaur had what kind of feather covering, like sauropods seem to at most have some quills and similar decorations, while dromaeosaurs (dakotaraptor, velociraptor, etc) were basically big murder birds with full on wings.

    But of course even within clades there could be significant difference: T.rex seems to have been, uh, covered in straight up skin like a giant plucked chicken… but at least some of its relatives were mostly covered in feathers.

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    • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you! Now you owe me no explanation of course, and ill verify this information if I need to.

      But may I ask, are you just well read in this department, or some sort of professional/expert?

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All birds today are actually coelurosauria dinosaurs, a group of theropods (T-rex and raptor-shape dinosaurs) who are thought to have all had feathers for warmth, show, and/or gliding and flight. I know we have evidence that some other theropods had feathers (or at least hairy stuff), but I don’t know whether the rest of them are lacking evidence of feathers or whether we have evidence against them having feathers.

    I would also love such a book, preferably with lots of pictures.

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• Wynnded@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’d look like dinosaurs.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They already look like dinosaurs.

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They already are dinosaurs

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I fucking knew it, they’re Tyranids!!

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• craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wet owl moment

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• TallonMetroid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Scientists believe that these strange creatures used their spiky arms to spear their prey.”

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• heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If swans were making a metal band…

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They did.

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  • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, they were an industrial band from the 80s

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d say ‘nope!’ But they kinda look tasty…

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• SprateHeader@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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