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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hair and feathers are preserved in fossils. That's how we know dinosaurs have feathers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how about fat? Could they have been chunky like penguins?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

those artists tend to base their drawings on the fossils alone, while ignoring what the animal might have looked like with layers of fat and other things.

That's not true. They are modeled that way since they are reptiles and that's the fat proportion of reptiles.

But than again they are related to birds so we don't know

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pterosaurs also independently from mammals evolved a form of hair.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks more like George, the resident homeless wino. Support your local George!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Thagomizers were only for haircare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, I would like to roar to the manager.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes but more feathers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Dreadosaurs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is what OP's ancestry looked like 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When did we start balding then?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The asteroid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Like Joey Ramone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We know that they have feathers, you should ask question how, if they are not preserved...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We know they have fathers thanks to fossilized pages of early Bird Law text books from about 68,083,000 BC