Feathered dinosaurs are already a popular concept among many of our society theories about them.

It's only matter of time before they start appearing like that on the TV, films and posters in order for people to get used to that.

You'll know its gone mainstream when the shitballs at the creation museum



put fucking jesus on a feathered dinosaur.

This whole feathered dino thing means dinos and birds are the same "kind"!

So, Noah only needed one pair of them on the ark! Solves the real-estate issue when you don't need space for every tom, dick and brontosaurus! Just one wee-little birdy like thingy.

Easy.

(August 11, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Zidneya Wrote: It's only matter of time before they start appearing like that on the TV, films and posters in order for people to get used to that.

There is as yet no evidence adult t-Rex had any significant amount of plumage.

There is fossilized skin evidence showing adult hadrosaurs didn't have feathers over their sides, tails and legs. They seem had bare skin with embedded pebbly bony knobs, something we might call reptilian.

(July 25, 2014 at 1:51 am)Minimalist Wrote: And nary a fucking ark to be seen....

You know, we wouldn't really need to find the ark, a simple 250 mile area where fossils of all the worlds animals could be found would do nicely too.
Surely as those animals migrated from the ark they both reproduced and died. I'd love to see a middle eastern tar pit with both Moose and a Koala Bear fossils in it.

(August 11, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: By definition if the earliest dinosaurs had feathers then, at that point in time, ALL dinosaurs had feathers and evolved from there.

Not quite true. To my knowledge all feathered dinosaurs are ceolosuarian, meaning that they are descendants of one small Triassic dinosaur. Ceolosuarian cover a large range of theropods that eat either meat or plants. We do known however that this does not cover all dinosaurs as all ceolosuarian are orithosrithian ( forgive my spelling) and there are still saurischians as well. As well we have carnosaurs which are a whole other lineage of animals.

One of them had to be first.

Does this mean that there might actually have been a real, live... feather boa????

(August 11, 2014 at 7:12 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:

(August 11, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: By definition if the earliest dinosaurs had feathers then, at that point in time, ALL dinosaurs had feathers and evolved from there.

Not quite true. To my knowledge all feathered dinosaurs are ceolosuarian, meaning that they are descendants of one small Triassic dinosaur. Ceolosuarian cover a large range of theropods that eat either meat or plants. We do known however that this does not cover all dinosaurs as all ceolosuarian are orithosrithian ( forgive my spelling) and there are still saurischians as well. As well we have carnosaurs which are a whole other lineage of animals.

You have it backwards. Birds and theropods are saurischians, not ornithischians, despite the name. Ornithischians have a hip structure superficially similar to birds, but they are otherwise much less similar to birds than saurischians.

(August 11, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Tonus Wrote: Does this mean that there might actually have been a real, live... feather boa????

Oohh, wouldn't that make a nice cock warmer!