fossils
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 7 months ago
weariedfae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh for sure, without a doubt. Hell it took forever for people to figure out feathers.
Then again, on rare occasion we do get some cool skin/soft tissue evidence like that Nodosaurus in Canada. Sometimes they’re strikingly similar to what we thought (or not?). I am not a paleontologist and I am speaking out of my ass.
That Nodosaurus is super cool though, y’all should see it.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
What if there was a dinosaur that literally was just a walking skeleton? 🤔
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Disgusting! Why have I followed the link. My entire day is ruined
yoshi@lemmy.today 7 months ago
In October, he was one of nine senators to vote against legislation intended to outlaw flag burning and other forms of flag defacement and joined Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch, the other two Republicans to vote against the bill,
That’s awesome. At least he stood for free speech…
in voicing a preference for a constitutional amendment.
…Jesus Christ
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Fucking coffin dodger.
scytale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What’s the current consensus, did dinosaurs look more like chickens?
rockerface@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Some definitely had feathers, and some likely were brightly colored
Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
In my mind, I picture of Sasquatch riding a dinosaur chicken
StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
Proto-feathers (basically hair) were basal to dinosaurs + pterosaurs, we have evidence for feathers on some dinosaurs (micro raptor had iridescent black feathers), fuzz on others (Psittacosaurus has long “quills” on its backend), and scales on others (Carnotosaurus, Diplodocus, large portion of T-Rex)
The idea right now is that the smaller ones probably had feathers, bigger ones had scales, unless they’re from China, then everything has feathers
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
From what I know, most raptors had feather and that’s where birds came from.
The broader group of theropods, including the T-Rex, had a precursor to feathers literally called “Dinofuzz”.
All other kinds of dinosaurs I believe are actually scaly like we thought.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 months ago
This is still not something we can answer with certainty. For a couple of years there, paleontology thought that psittacosaurus had feathers on its tail - and as a ceratopsian, on the complete other side of the dinosaur ‘tree’, that would suggest the base form for dinosaurs must have feathers and any that didn’t have them lost them at some point in their lineage (and thus could potentially regain them if the DNA was deactivated rather than lost). Now the feathers are disputed again, as “something else” - spines of some sort unrelated to feathers.
No doubt lots of dinosaurs were scaly, but I don’t think anyone would say with certainty that feathers were limited to late theropods.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Check out Prehistoric Planet, they say they used the latest research to make the dinos, feathers and all
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
… some of them.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 months ago
Mammals are different than reptiles. A better comparison would be today’s reptiles.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Mammals only got yeeted to their own evolutionary tree branch 40 million years prior to those that would be considered reptilian (sorta dinos too) which was somewhere in the realm of 250 million years ago.
Meaninng the reptiles of today are ~5x further apart in time from dinosaurs, than dinosaurs are from their common ancestors to mammals.
I think we really should just not bother thinking in terms of current speciation concepts. They could have had jellyfish like tentacles dangling allover their skin and we’d never know.
Zoop@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Mammals only got yeeted to their own evolutionary tree branch 40 million years prior to those that would be considered reptilian (sorta dinos too) which was somewhere in the realm of 250 million years ago.
As someone who was raised and taught to believe that the earth was only a few thousand years old (by ‘that kind’ of Christians/churches,) this still blows my mind to read! I’ve known what I was taught was bullshit for at least around fifteen years, but it’s like my little pea brain still just cannot compute it. Wild stuff!!
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Dinosaurs aren’t reptiles, they’re birds.
Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 7 months ago
All birds are dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs are birds though
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Birds aren’t real
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
And birds and dinos are crocs (unlike most other reptiles)
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Football
Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Inb4 the t rex is agreed to have had long, fleshy, limp whip arms that were far longer than the tiny bones.
Cube6392@beehaw.org 7 months ago
They used the long tentacle arms to quickly thwip through the jungle