I’m somewhat baffled by bald dinos anyway, aren’t birds like their direct descendants? It’s completely logical then, that they would be like giant chickens with feathers, running around, chirping and stuff
But imagine not violent, but like more chill giant feathered birds. You go through a forest and bam: 20 feet tall turkey, which makes a strange low-note squawk and runs away
All birds are dinosaurs, but birds aren't direct descendants of most non-avian dinosaurs. They split off from the rest of the theropods over 100 million years ago, so there was a really long time where they evolved next to each other. There's dinosaurs that became even more birdlike long after actual, flying birds in various ecological niches were already a thing, there's very birdlike dinosaurs that evolved into less birdlike dinosaurs like T. rex, which we now know to be definitely scaly and not feathery in parts where earlier tyrannosaurids had feathers.
Oh, interesting. But like, their last common ancestor was feathered or skinny? I.e. did dinosaurs lose feathers to get scaly, or did they get feathers to become bird-like?
I’m somewhat baffled by bald dinos anyway, aren’t birds like their direct descendants? It’s completely logical then, that they would be like giant chickens with feathers, running around, chirping and stuff
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But imagine not violent, but like more chill giant feathered birds. You go through a forest and bam: 20 feet tall turkey, which makes a strange low-note squawk and runs away
Chocobos are real so you can't oppress me for being a g*mer now.
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maybe this isn't representative of all emus, but i have fed a captive emu and he was the kindest gentlest soul in the world.
All birds are dinosaurs, but birds aren't direct descendants of most non-avian dinosaurs. They split off from the rest of the theropods over 100 million years ago, so there was a really long time where they evolved next to each other. There's dinosaurs that became even more birdlike long after actual, flying birds in various ecological niches were already a thing, there's very birdlike dinosaurs that evolved into less birdlike dinosaurs like T. rex, which we now know to be definitely scaly and not feathery in parts where earlier tyrannosaurids had feathers.
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Oh, interesting. But like, their last common ancestor was feathered or skinny? I.e. did dinosaurs lose feathers to get scaly, or did they get feathers to become bird-like?
Their last common ancestor was already feathered.