Comment on tall tails

• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn’t, like most big mammals.

  Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.

  Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn’t be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying…

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    pretty sure we know basically 100% for certain that some species of T.Rex relatives were fluffy, the ones living in the arctic specifically iirc.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is thought now that dinosaurs had a sort of fluff. Like feathers but not evolved to fly with yet.

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