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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Me neither, before I saw the first feathered life-size replicas in dino parks.
And I have to say, they are somehow way more scary than their naked counterparts in my opinion.
So now I am Team Feather!
I bet some of their patterns would be so beautiful and mesmerizing that you just stand there admiring it until you get chomped up.
I am also having a great time picturing dinosaurs having wacky feather patterns, dances, and habits for mating. I collected you ferns and frilled my feathers please respond.
You’d like Prehistoric Planet (1 & 2), if you haven’t seen it. It’s really, really good.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with and enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I turned our geese into attack dogs when was 3 because they liked me but no one else. This resulted in at least one instance of my uncle (moms younger brother) being chased around by five pissed off geese. I have respected feathered creatures ever since.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height
grue@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Chriton and/or Spielburg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The book came out in 1990.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Building the animatronics, filming, and editing still take time. According to Wikipedia, filming took place entirely in 1992 and post-production ended in May 1993.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
They’d still be large for cassowaries, just not the size of a truck.
But yes, that’d be terrifying.
Also relevant: youtu.be/U49R3Gqx8lw
criticon@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Yeah, geese are terrifying and already come with “teeth”.
a close up of a goose's open beak
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.
Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you…