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!
Truth hurts!
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 17 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.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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 13 hours ago
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 15 hours ago
You’d like Prehistoric Planet (1 & 2), if you haven’t seen it. It’s really, really good.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They look way more badass with feathers.
It’s time to grow up and accept the truth
ameancow@lemmy.world 13 hours 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 13 hours ago
For real though - people will insist that Pluto is a planet but not even know about Eris.
lorty@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Except when you actually read about the change in Pluto’s status and how unscientific it actually is.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Sounds like you’re boring to me, feathered dinos are cool AF
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 10 hours 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 10 hours ago
flango@lemmy.eco.br 12 hours ago
Right?
tomiant@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Behold, a man
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 hours 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 14 hours ago
That T-rex looks cool.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Did you make the minis yourself?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 hours ago
I just printed out paper tokens and laminated them.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 15 hours ago
Feathered dinos are cooler
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Nahh, the feather makes them pop instead of being just giant lizards.
It also makes having pet velociraptors more fun
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours 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 7 hours ago
How do we know if they’re skinny when we only got bones
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours 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.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
They also had cheecks!
lil_tank@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
Science made the dinosaurs woke 🤬
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Dude, they would have been literally running around naked before.
If anything, they became more conservative. ;-)
muhyb@programming.dev 14 hours ago
I knew cassowaries were dinosaurs.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 17 hours ago
Why did the dino run away from the fight?
Because it was a big chicken.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
I’ve never really liked the lizardy type of dinosaur, so I am actually happy that they are feathered
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Now I’m even more disappointed that I wasn’t around to see them!
huppakee@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Personally for me having the comfort of modern life beats getting to live with dinosaurs, but no judgement.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
You wouldn’t miss what you never knew. The comfort of modern life creates more problems for every one that it solves.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 16 hours ago
Industrial grade borb
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
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ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I imagine it would have less feathers from the neck up, more like vultures have. But T-chonk is a dream
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
CAN THEY LOAF?