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waterore@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Klear@quokk.au ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We even have ways to figure out their colouring in some cases now! Like this sinosauropteryx:

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  • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s cool. How did they figure out the colouring?

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They found preserved melanosomes. It was previously thought these were the remains of bacteria.

      You can find details here, but I highly recommend reading Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World by Michael J. Benton, who was one of the ones doing the research. The book is very fun to read (he’s got that typical dry british humour) and it has absolutely lovely illustrations, including the one I linked above. And also this anurognathus that is the cutest thing ever:

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      • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s cool. We’re going to look back at present views of dinosaurs with laughter it sounds like. Thanks for the answer. I’ll check out the book.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    omg look at it, it’s like a ferret with giant legs

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That guy sounds snotty.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah, we have some absolutely amazing art these days. i particularly love this type of depiction of dromaeosaurs: Just MASSIVE birds with teeth instead of beaks and huge claws, they feel very… cromulent…

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That post is of course a billion years old itself and the images created by shrink-wrapping are still in people’s heads. Feathers on dinosaurs are rarely what people think of first as well and the notion has been around for quite a while.

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Feathers have been found on dinosaur fossils only “recently”, with the discovery of Sinosauropteryx in 1996Image

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, not entirely sure what you’re saying?

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      • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I am claiming tkat the notion has been circulating only for the last 30 years.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean the lizard dinosaurs are everywhere. Every toy, movie, even in schools.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe they don’t fit under the term of “paleoartists” (they are artists of Paleolithic creatures) but the most popular modern depictions of dinosaurs are presumably the Jurrasic World movies, and I think they are almost universally lacking plumage. I’ve only seen the first, but the images I’ve seen I don’t have any feathered dinos. So, no. This is still an ongoing issue.

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