• Donkter@lemmy.world
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        The common art keeps giving them long feathers on their arms but I would have assumed long feathers only evolved on flying birds and most of the feathers on the flightless dinosaurs would be pretty uniform.

        • cynar@lemmy.world
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          I’ve also come across these. There’s a lot we don’t know, all of these could be entirely wrong.

          • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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            Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      unfortunately a lot of art just sorta glues a bunch of feathers to a deinonychus and calls it a velociraptor, but here’s some stuff i feel makes more sense.
      (Also side note: t.rex probably was actually mostly naked, however it was likely skin rather than scales, like a giant plucked monster turkey, which IMO is significantly worse.)

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