I don't think dinosaurs had feathers.

Propably only the smaller ones had them, as much as we all want a giant fluffball T-rex pet.

Feathers propably depended on size and the climate the animal lived in. Mammoths had fur, Elephants and rhinos don't. Ostriches also have less feathers than a Kiwi.

Unless there was a T-rex subspecies that lived far north, Like a Canada-Rex, it is unlikely they had anything other than a yellow chad feather mohawk.

The artists' trend to put feathers of the rainbow on every fucking dinosaur is pretty cringe and baseless. Even if they did live so cold they needed them, they would be probs brown or white to blend in with the snow. Just look at birds that aren't fucking jungle birds. Flower colouring would work for small animals in hot climates only.

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There's fossil evidence of feathered dinosaurs, they had feathers; we only have proof the smaller dinosaurs... but we are missing a lot of the big picture and for many species, it's a big question mark.

Re T-Rex, we have preserved skin patterns, which are reptilian, like the Komodo dragon. However, the younger T-Rex may have had feathers, and there may be residual feathers in adults for all we know. Like, for example, the T-Rex male could have had a brightly-colored crown of feathers like a clown afro, and it would have looked ridiculous and closed the pool.

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Male Idiot said:
Propably only the smaller ones had them, as much as we all want a giant fluffball T-rex pet.

Feathers propably depended on size and the climate the animal lived in. Mammoths had fur, Elephants and rhinos don't. Ostriches also have less feathers than a Kiwi.

Unless there was a T-rex subspecies that lived far north, Like a Canada-Rex, it is unlikely they had anything other than a yellow chad feather mohawk.

The artists' trend to put feathers of the rainbow on every fucking dinosaur is pretty cringe and baseless. Even if they did live so cold they needed them, they would be probs brown or white to blend in with the snow. Just look at birds that aren't fucking jungle birds. Flower colouring would work for small animals in hot climates only.

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My favorites are when they put feathers on Ceratopsians and even Sauropods. Nothing like a like long neck covered in feathers. It's all speculation and they can do what they want because it's their art. But it is really ridiculous. Last I heard the Rex was most likely not feathered at all. But people still like to insist on T-Rex feathers. They found a few fossils with feathers and now every Dinosaur has to look like a big bird.
 
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They found a few fossils with feathers and now every Dinosaur has to look like a big bird.
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This is exactly my problem with some overzealous paleobullshitters.
Yes, there is evidence of certain dinosaurs having feathers, NO, that doesn't mean all of them had feathers.
What I hate even more, when they start super speculating about their soft tissue distribution and depict them as obese, flabby mounds of flesh. Then, they start adding ridiculous things, like those inflatable balloons on the side of the neck of sauropods and I just can't take them seriously anymore.
We can extrapolate based on current fauna all we want, but we will never really know exactly how dinosaurs looked like, let alone behaved. I know, it sucks, but we just have to make peace with this.
 
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This is exactly my problem with some overzealous paleobullshitters.
Yes, there is evidence of certain dinosaurs having feathers, NO, that doesn't mean all of them had feathers.
What I hate even more, when they start super speculating about their soft tissue distribution and depict them as obese, flabby mounds of flesh. Then, they start adding ridiculous things, like those inflatable balloons on the side of the neck of sauropods and I just can't take them seriously anymore.
We can extrapolate based on current fauna all we want, but we will never really know exactly how dinosaurs looked like, let alone behaved. I know, it sucks, but we just have to make peace with this.
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I agree on this. It's true that dinosaurs weren't shrinkwrapped, but they also probably weren't obese and covered in wattles from head to toe. This trend of depicting "meatier" dinosaurs started on legitimate bases but has become ludicrous, somewhat like how depicting active and athletic dinosaurs in the 1990s turned into showing them as permanently blood-drenched supercrocs in the 2000s.
 
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I agree on this. It's true that dinosaurs weren't shrinkwrapped, but they also probably weren't obese and covered in wattles from head to toe. This trend of depicting "meatier" dinosaurs started on legitimate bases but has become ludicrous, somewhat like how depicting active and athletic dinosaurs in the 1990s turned into showing them as permanently blood-drenched supercrocs in the 2000s.
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I just hope at some point, this fluctuation between the two extremes stops and all available data gets reevaluated and formed into something, that is more down to earth.
 
But because Velociraptor hasn’t been found in the perfect geological settings that fossilise soft tissues, we don’t know exactly what its feathers would have looked like.

But we have a better idea now, thanks to the discovery of a spectacular new dinosaur from northeastern China that I studied with my colleague, Junchang Lü of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.

Our new dinosaur, Zhenyuanlong, is one of the closest cousins of Velociraptor. Its gorgeous chocolate-coloured skeleton was found by a farmer in 125-million-year-old rocks that were laid down in a quiet lake buried by volcanic ash. It’s just the right environment for preserving the soft bits that usually decay before a fossil is formed.
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New Fossil Reveals Velociraptor Sported Feathers

Real velociraptors hardly resembled the huge scaly lizards shown in Jurassic World
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Halmaz said:
This is exactly my problem with some overzealous paleobullshitters.
Yes, there is evidence of certain dinosaurs having feathers, NO, that doesn't mean all of them had feathers.
What I hate even more, when they start super speculating about their soft tissue distribution and depict them as obese, flabby mounds of flesh. Then, they start adding ridiculous things, like those inflatable balloons on the side of the neck of sauropods and I just can't take them seriously anymore.
We can extrapolate based on current fauna all we want, but we will never really know exactly how dinosaurs looked like, let alone behaved. I know, it sucks, but we just have to make peace with this.
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All the stuff that is new and cutting edge now and propped up as fact. Will be proven false in the future. The information on extinct animals is always changing. Nothing is concrete.
 
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They weren't feathers in the way that we commonly think of bird feathers. They would have been much more similar to hair.
 
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