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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: René on January 03, 2022, 11:29:52 AM

Title: A different take on dinosaurs.
Post by: René on January 03, 2022, 11:29:52 AM
A different take on dinosaurs by Damir G. Martin.

https://www.artstation.com/embed/28900137
http://www.damirgmartin.com/?fbclid=IwAR1_o45Uq6dcDF929g22OpI3DQs48fUD6p4ypGtoSf2aqBlX9FMwt5R3Xpw
Title: Re: A different take on dinosaurs.
Post by: WAS on January 03, 2022, 01:42:25 PM
I like that he didn't put feathers on parts of an adult t-rex where we know there were none period (skin prints without quill pores)
Title: Re: A different take on dinosaurs.
Post by: WAS on January 03, 2022, 01:46:28 PM
I am fairly confident most dinosaurs did not have feathers. Only a select few small theropods in the line that turned into Aves, as some of these went on to fly, and some of them went on to just get big. Additionally with the skull structure and bone structure of the large theropods like Tyrannosaurus, feathers would be a limitation to cooling down at such massive sizes, similar to modern large birds have a quarter of the feathering of small birds, let alone even have downy (emus and ostrich), and they aren't nearly as big as what some of these theropods had, in much hotter and humid climates.
Title: Re: A different take on dinosaurs.
Post by: Dune on January 04, 2022, 03:03:27 AM
Cool ideas. My concern with huge dino's is that if they went for a stroll in the mud, they would probably sink very deep. This is probably no real mud :P
Title: Re: A different take on dinosaurs.
Post by: WAS on January 04, 2022, 12:28:37 PM
Quote from: Dune on January 04, 2022, 03:03:27 AMCool ideas. My concern with huge dino's is that if they went for a stroll in the mud, they would probably sink very deep. This is probably no real mud :P
That's supposedly one of the advantages of their necks, cause this is very true, so they would stay away from banks that were muddy and use their neck. But I don't think they aren't as dumb as scientists say, and would pressure test the ground like elephants, as such large terrestrial migrators would need to cross rivers, flats, etc to get to new feeding grounds.