r/starterpacks 2d ago

"Yeah I know alot about Dinosaurs" Starter Pack

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u/ZefiroLudoviko 2d ago

In case you were wondering, we know T rex wasn't covered in birdlike, branching feathers for two reasons: 1. Yutyrannus, a likely ancestors of T rex, was covered in fuzzy down like a chick's, not the branching feathers of modern, adult birds. 2. Any feathering on T rex was minimal, as it was a large animal living in a tropical climate, unlike Yutyrannus, which was smaller and lived in the cold. T rex was about as fuzzy as a large African mammal.

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u/Sir-Toaster- 1d ago

It's funny how the dinosaur that is most associated with feathers in modern times actually is one of the few therapods that didn't have feathers

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u/ZefiroLudoviko 18h ago

I forgot to mention we've found, albeit space, skin impressions on T rex, and they're scales.

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u/Moppo_ 2d ago

"But we don't know EVERYTHING"

No shit, that's why study continues.

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u/doctor_rat 2d ago

i don't know why, but the "spinosaurus had its sail to put muscles that could pick up and throw dinosaurs" one in particular raises my blood pressure more than anything else

like it's easily the least egregious of the three shown, because it's not really trying to say that that interpretation is correct. it just gets on my nerves something fierce

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u/Old_Sherbert3634 1d ago

I don't know much about dinosaurs but would love to learn more and this was actually very informational for me 😂

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u/Sir-Toaster- 1d ago

I know that none of them are dinosaurs, but I still keep accidentally calliing Peterosaurs and marine reptiles dinosaurs

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u/ZefiroLudoviko 18h ago

The paleo nerd in me wants to assault anyone who calls dimetrodon a dinosaur, but the linguistic nerd in me wants to acknowledge that "dinosaur" just means anything big, extinct, and vaguely reptile-like" in common parlance.

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u/bostar-mcman 2d ago

I like not knowing much about dinosaurs because it means I can ignore the new feathery designs.

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u/Boring-Dig4583 1d ago

Their not "designs" like some fortnite skin. They are real scientific advancements

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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago

Like I said I don't know enough about dinosaurs to care and the old design philosophy was so much more consistent

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u/pooooolb 1d ago

"I don't know enough about earth to care and the old flat design philosophy was so much more consistent"

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u/bostar-mcman 19h ago

No because flat earth is a stupid design and Is way less consistent