Freaky
So without their feathers they look like they act?
Submitted 1 day ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 day 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,
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I want to see a Jurassic Park movie where it’s just geese and swans breaking out of captivity, and mildly annoying everyone.
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.
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
We even have ways to figure out their colouring in some cases now! Like this sinosauropteryx:
khannie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s cool. How did they figure out the colouring?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
omg look at it, it’s like a ferret with giant legs
toynbee@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That guy sounds snotty.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 17 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
FatVegan@leminal.space 17 hours ago
I mean the lizard dinosaurs are everywhere. Every toy, movie, even in schools.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 23 hours 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.
sploosh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Choose Goose is looking rough.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
New pokemon looks different
Meron35@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 day 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
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 14 hours 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
stray@pawb.social 4 hours 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.
Alberat@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
crazy how there’s billion dollar movies that game embarrassingly incorrect dinosaurs in them
stray@pawb.social 4 hours 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours 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.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Movies often align to the popular perception if a thing rather than reality. Otherwise you’re watching a documentary.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours 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
Alberat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Dino DNA!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
This is so outdated it’s wrong.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Those old-paleoartists were really unfettered.
scott_anon_21@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
🤣
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I fucking knew it, they’re Tyranids!!
Wynnded@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
They’d look like dinosaurs.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I am both frightened and aroused
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Wet owl moment
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Scientists believe that these strange creatures used their spiky arms to spear their prey.”
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
If swans were making a metal band…
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
zwerg@feddit.org 1 day ago
Nah, they were an industrial band from the 80s
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d say ‘nope!’ But they kinda look tasty…
SprateHeader@piefed.social 1 day ago
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
A giant chicken, truly terrifying.Image