They look way more badass with feathers.
It’s time to grow up and accept the truth
Truth hurts!
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gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone who complains about this are the same people who whinged about the change of Pluto’s status as a planet.
In that, they are clinging to nostalgia instead of embracing a new, wondrous truth. Feathers and fur on dinosaurs shows an entirely new way of imagining the world before us, just like Pluto’s downgrade was simply because we found potentially thousands of more Pluto’s.
I think a lot of people broadly are insecure about change right now. Stability feels precious, and this nostalgic retreat is being leveraged by anti-science groups.
python@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For real though - people will insist that Pluto is a planet but not even know about Eris.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pluto actually got a promotion to the King of the dwarf planets, rather than the least of the rocky planets.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve also just now decided that all those spiny backed donosors? They were just dummy thicc and they needed extra spine bone to support all that cheek
lorty@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Except when you actually read about the change in Pluto’s status and how unscientific it actually is.
dovahking@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed. It always irked me that the ancestors of birds look more like lizards than birds, when the ancestors of crocodiles looked pretty much the same.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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!
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.
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
criticon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’d like Prehistoric Planet (1 & 2), if you haven’t seen it. It’s really, really good.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Sounds like you’re boring to me, feathered dinos are cool AF
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Yeah, when science got around to it I felt very lied to - what delights we missed out on so many years of bad birb pop culture.
Also, if cat-like predators can be cool (which they are), then so would be feathered dino movies.
Just install big cat software on a cassowary hardware modded for hunt.
ragas@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
flango@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
Right?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Indeed
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
A few years ago I created a small pen & paper roleplaying game for my kids to play as dinosaurs. They very much wanted their dinosaurs to be feathered. The kids are alright.
My daughter’s young T-Rex:
Jf2540@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That T-rex looks cool.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Did you make the minis yourself?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 weeks ago
I just printed out paper tokens and laminated them.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Behold, a man
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nahh, the feather makes them pop instead of being just giant lizards.
It also makes having pet velociraptors more fun
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Feathered dinos are cooler
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Not me, I am very, VERY happy.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
User name checks out
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lil_tank@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Science made the dinosaurs woke 🤬
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Dude, they would have been literally running around naked before.
If anything, they became more conservative. ;-)
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Why did the dino run away from the fight?
Because it was a big chicken.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Me too but I think it’s more because I was 5 than anything to actually do with dinosaurs having feathers or not.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if the feathers were badass mohawks or liberty spikes you ever think of that
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They also had cheecks!
muhyb@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I knew cassowaries were dinosaurs.
giddy@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Mongo is appalled!
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I came here to make sure there was a DCC reference
MrMetaKopos@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
God dammit Donut!
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Plus they were much smaller than depicted in movies. They are estimated to have weighed about 15 kg and were about 2m long, but over half of that was tail. A Border Collie has about the same body length and a much thicker build.
They were long, skinny murder turkeys.
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
How do we know if they’re skinny when we only got bones
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Good question. Slender is a better term. Their skeletal structure is horizontally compact, more so than a Border Collie. Scientists can estimate musculature based on the size and shape of attachment points, but it’s all speculative.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The bones we got were out back a prehistoric BBQ hut with a picture menu for dinos who couldn’t read
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
all they had to do is specify the were Utharaptors and that’s it
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have a pet parrot. If that little 10oz, 8” motherfucker was my size we would all be fucked. Even at his size he can do damage, and when he’s mad he’s vicious. I’ve seen chickens fight each other or go after a bug. Those fuckers are dinosaurs.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Chonk Chicken
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I’ve never really liked the lizardy type of dinosaur, so I am actually happy that they are feathered
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Now I’m even more disappointed that I wasn’t around to see them!
huppakee@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Personally for me having the comfort of modern life beats getting to live with dinosaurs, but no judgement.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
You wouldn’t miss what you never knew. The comfort of modern life creates more problems for every one that it solves.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Industrial grade borb
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CAN THEY LOAF?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
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ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I imagine it would have less feathers from the neck up, more like vultures have. But T-chonk is a dream
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Holy fluffin chirpball !!