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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 62 points 2 years ago

Hair and feathers are preserved in fossils. That's how we know dinosaurs have feathers.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

But how about fat? Could they have been chunky like penguins?

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 11 points 2 years ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

those artists tend to base their drawings on the fossils alone, while ignoring what the animal might have looked like with layers of fat and other things.

That's not true. They are modeled that way since they are reptiles and that's the fat proportion of reptiles.

But than again they are related to birds so we don't know

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Pterosaurs also independently from mammals evolved a form of hair.

[-] snoopfrog@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago
[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Looks more like George, the resident homeless wino. Support your local George!

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago

Thagomizers were only for haircare.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yes, I would like to roar to the manager.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Yes but more feathers.

[-] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] MxM111@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

Dreadosaurs

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is what OP's ancestry looked like ๐Ÿ˜†

When did we start balding then?!

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The asteroid

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Like Joey Ramone?

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We know that they have feathers, you should ask question how, if they are not preserved...

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

We know they have fathers thanks to fossilized pages of early Bird Law text books from about 68,083,000 BC

this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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