• panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      :yes-sicko: Feather dinos are infinitely cooler because evidently they actually existed. Sorry not sorry

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There's evidence both for feathered and scaly species. There's tyranosaurids who definitely had feathers, there were also later species that were definitely scaly. Feather gang's cooler, though :bird-bouncy:

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          oh for sure, I was thinking of the Jurassic Park depiction of velociraptors etc, which to be fair, has a perfect in-universe excuse of including lizard/amphibian dna, and being a rough reconstruction.

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Feather dinos are infinitely cooler because they actually exist right now.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      Th can literally just obsess over the crocodilians from the time, never understood the hassle.

    • TruffleBitch [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Geese and swans are legit assholes, but fucking raptors are scary as shit. Dinos with feathers are still badass.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Even more because "goddamit a fucking chicken is gonna kill me"

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They may actually be more terrifying, at least in certain contexts. Everyone knows what a scaly monster with steak knives hanging out of its mouth is, and could quickly spot and avoid the danger if you actually encountered it. The more modern reconstructions with signifigant feathering and teeth covered by lips look much different, and less obviously predatory, it would be awful to run into one and think haha funny herbivore, then be eaten.

      This all works on the hypothetical of time travel or a jurassic park scenario, where the fear is something irl. The scaly dinosaurs are much more of a movie monster.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      yeah clearly someone's never seen a blue heron commit cold-blooded murder

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      The Virgin dirt-with-footprints preserver vs the Chad "oi that rival paleontology team might complete to unearth these bones during the night so we better blast them"

  • UglySpaghettiHoe [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If any nerd tries to tell you that dinosaurs had feathers, throw them in a locker and tell them to watch Jurassic Park

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I like when they’re not sure if they’ve discovered a new species or dinosaur or it’s a juvenile of an known dinosaur and they argue back and forth

  • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah you stick it to those underpaid scientists. Take down big archaeology.