Whoa! T-rex Had Feathers!
<div class="IPBDescription">"protofeathers" discovere</div> <a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1321207,00.html' target='_blank'>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,...1321207,00.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Tyrannosaurus rex may have had a coat of fluffy feathers.
This conclusion comes from US and Chinese scientists who today announce the discovery of a 130m-year-old forerunner of the lumbering Cretaceous predator.
Dilong paradoxus - its generic name comes from the Mandarin for emperor and dragon, and its species name from its unusual features - was the size of a turkey, had a single nose bone, a massive jaw, a long neck, and hands with three fingers.
Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History, Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other colleagues report in Nature that its fossils were unearthed in Liaoning province in China.
Dilong is the most primitive of the tyrannosaurid family found so far. But what shook the discoverers was that the region's unique volcanic ash and sandy muds preserved not just the skeleton but also some soft tissue - and the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs had feathers, or at least branching structures an inch long called protofeathers.
Theropods, predator dinosaurs, share 100 or more anatomical features with modern birds - a wishbone, swivelling wrists, three forward-pointing toes, and so on. In eight years, Liaoning has repeatedly yielded evidence of feathers as well. There is a strong belief birds evolved from egg-laying, young-nursing dinosaurs. But feathers would emerge initially as a way of regulating body temperature. It suggests the ferocious T-rex may have had a fluffy coat at some stage in its life. "The discovery of protofeathers ... provides even more evidence of the shared evolutionary features between non-avian dinosaurs and living birds," said Dr Norell.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a related article @ national geographic. check out the pics:
<a href='http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/99/feather/' target='_blank'>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/99/feather/</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Tyrannosaurus rex may have had a coat of fluffy feathers.
This conclusion comes from US and Chinese scientists who today announce the discovery of a 130m-year-old forerunner of the lumbering Cretaceous predator.
Dilong paradoxus - its generic name comes from the Mandarin for emperor and dragon, and its species name from its unusual features - was the size of a turkey, had a single nose bone, a massive jaw, a long neck, and hands with three fingers.
Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History, Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other colleagues report in Nature that its fossils were unearthed in Liaoning province in China.
Dilong is the most primitive of the tyrannosaurid family found so far. But what shook the discoverers was that the region's unique volcanic ash and sandy muds preserved not just the skeleton but also some soft tissue - and the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs had feathers, or at least branching structures an inch long called protofeathers.
Theropods, predator dinosaurs, share 100 or more anatomical features with modern birds - a wishbone, swivelling wrists, three forward-pointing toes, and so on. In eight years, Liaoning has repeatedly yielded evidence of feathers as well. There is a strong belief birds evolved from egg-laying, young-nursing dinosaurs. But feathers would emerge initially as a way of regulating body temperature. It suggests the ferocious T-rex may have had a fluffy coat at some stage in its life. "The discovery of protofeathers ... provides even more evidence of the shared evolutionary features between non-avian dinosaurs and living birds," said Dr Norell.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a related article @ national geographic. check out the pics:
<a href='http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/99/feather/' target='_blank'>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/99/feather/</a>
Comments
<i>Prehistoric</i>, even.
AHAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Get it? Old? PREHISTORIC? Huh? Huh?
I'll go to the corner now.
Weird though. Oh well, we didn't even know about Dinosaurs till the late 1800s (I think) , so it's nothing surprising that our knowledge of them is changing.
I wish rats never existed.
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I wish idiots never existed, but then again what would we do without Nexus and Smartbomb?
CREATIONIST ALERT BURN THE IGNORANCE OUT OF HIM
<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>Dreams Eventually Lead To Hideous Implosions...</span>
Anyway, I couldn't tell much from those pictures on the fossil... except the UV thing was pretty cool. Where they're seeing feathers...
<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>Dreams Eventually Lead To Hideous Implosions...</span>
Anyway, I couldn't tell much from those pictures on the fossil... except the UV thing was pretty cool. Where they're seeing feathers... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hehehe... "And what did we learn today class...?"
Anyway the "Dinosaur" bones are just the remenants of alien picnics.
<img src='http://www.intothewoods.us/HikerMama/hen2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Do you see the murder in its eyes?
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I wish Islam never existed or if it did it was about 1000 years older than it is now
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Waste away. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
"oh god, here it comes...RRUUUNNN"
"bok, bok, bok, *peck* *peck* *peck
"AHHH my eyes, ow, ow, ow, get away big chicken"
I wouldn't be surprised if the next finding shows that the feathers were a 'manly' pink o_O;
<span style='color:orange'>UltimaGecko has ruined the fun, and feels bad.</span>
LMAO!
"oh god, here it comes...RRUUUNNN"
"bok, bok, bok, *peck* *peck* *peck
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It seems the kid in jurassic park was right....
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Quoted for emphasis.
And yes, don't ruin the fun UltimaGecko, you fun-ruiner. Go back to your cage of common-sense.
BTW; CWAG, that was pretty random.
[/wants to be a Vertebrate Paleontologist]
Actually, that was helpful, and pretty informative.
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That explains your hilarious sig pic.
If I remember correctly, he called the Velociraptor's Turkeys.
<!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo--> aww look at that cute fluffy OHNOES!!! AHHHHH <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Yes
so afraid
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So how big would a velocirapter be? If i was fast enough [and built], would I be able to punch one out?
You know.. for future reference...
Edit: Uh, now I really really really really want to see Jurassic Park redone with arnie going around protecting his hot, accessible daughter [eliza dushku.. awesome], and punching out dinosaurs and setting up elaborate traps, and basically killing the entire bloody dinosaur population on the island before he sets off a bomb and flies out