NO MO' - "Nude Beach" - DINOSAU' !
source: http://guardian.co.uk
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More "Quetzalcoatl",...Less Centerfold ! - more dignified title; I'm tired of seeing naked dinosaurs
by Brian Switek | Science | guardian.co.uk
-While walking through a natural history museum gift shop a few years back, I spotted a plush Velociraptor among the piles of dinosauriana. Frankly, it looked pretty stupid. Covered in a soft, fuzzy coat of faux-feathers, it lacked the reptilian menace of the predatory dinosaurs I remembered from my youth. This theropod looked more likely to cuddle someone to death than sink its hyperextendable toe claws into its hapless victim. Surely the feathers were just speculation based on the close relationship between some dinosaurs and birds? Velociraptor never would have looked so silly.
-But I was wrong about the dinosaur's plumage. Many theropod dinosaurs – Velociraptor included – sported downy coats, but it took a lot of digging through the scientific literature to overcome my bias towards more reptilian dinosaurs. Even though I had heard of a few genera that had been found with feather impressions intact, the imagery of cold-eyed, scaly dinosaurs from the books and documentaries I saw as a child stuck with me so strongly that it was difficult for me to believe that any dinosaur could have had feathers unless there was direct evidence to the contrary. I was thinking only in terms of what had been found etched in stone, and I lacked the evolutionary and historical perspective required to understand why scientists had recently started sticking feathers on some of my favourite dinosaurs.
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by Brian Switek | Science | guardian.co.uk
-While walking through a natural history museum gift shop a few years back, I spotted a plush Velociraptor among the piles of dinosauriana. Frankly, it looked pretty stupid. Covered in a soft, fuzzy coat of faux-feathers, it lacked the reptilian menace of the predatory dinosaurs I remembered from my youth. This theropod looked more likely to cuddle someone to death than sink its hyperextendable toe claws into its hapless victim. Surely the feathers were just speculation based on the close relationship between some dinosaurs and birds? Velociraptor never would have looked so silly.
-But I was wrong about the dinosaur's plumage. Many theropod dinosaurs – Velociraptor included – sported downy coats, but it took a lot of digging through the scientific literature to overcome my bias towards more reptilian dinosaurs. Even though I had heard of a few genera that had been found with feather impressions intact, the imagery of cold-eyed, scaly dinosaurs from the books and documentaries I saw as a child stuck with me so strongly that it was difficult for me to believe that any dinosaur could have had feathers unless there was direct evidence to the contrary. I was thinking only in terms of what had been found etched in stone, and I lacked the evolutionary and historical perspective required to understand why scientists had recently started sticking feathers on some of my favourite dinosaurs.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/nov/04/naked-dinosaurs-feathers-bris...
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/4/128887551463...
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UtopianSky
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Here are the recreations based on more modern, and more accurate, scientific data.
Imagine these noble beasts standing a hundred meters tall, roaming the plains.
http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/2/0/0/4/3/1/1/orig-2004311.jpg
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MizPiz
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Realizing that velociraptors weren't, in fact, commando-esque badasses was a real low point for me and dinosaurs.
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