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this is why i like the idea of feathered dinos, but at the same time hate it.

i love it for its potential, male dinosaurs doing a mating dance, showing off, it has roots in natural world.

i hate it because it is in human nature to jump to conclusions and take it to the extreme.

by that i mean , they discover hints of some feathers on a fossil, the very next step is to turn every dinosaur available into a fuzzball of feathers XD

i find nature much more interesting and varied, and while some were probably fully covered in feathers others had none, and others again had some .

this is my opinion, just like most of paleontology is based on opinions till proven wrong.

these are in no way shape or form scientific reconstructions, but just one dino nerd rekindling the memories from high school when i used to be obsessed with dinosaurs.


now its all dragons for me XD
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~Manifesto-99 5 hours ago
fuckin rad.
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~Seleuf Mar 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I agree with you here. It's an interesting notion, dinos with feathers, but as you said, people find -some- evidence for -certain- species and suddenly start putting feathers on all of them. The feathers could have been only for one family of dinosaurs, or purely a regional development. It's like they were so mindblown by the raptors with feathers that they forgot all about the fossilized -skin- imprints.

It's likely related to the bandwagon of "Birds evolved from dinosaurs! Therefor, birds -are- modern dinosaurs! :O And dinosaurs were birds, not lizards!!" I could agree to dinosaurs being related to lizards and birds evolving from dinosaurs, but that certainly doesn't make them the same thing. xD All three are still their own thing. Otherwise one might as well say that the first mammals that were scurrying around at that time were humans and based on that depict them all with hair only on their heads and crotches and no fur. xD

Regardless, awesome piece of artwork!
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~transformationbehere Mar 6, 2013
LOVE the detail
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~Gozer-The-Destroyor Jan 9, 2013
The feathers on larger therapods like t. rex were more than likely sparse and built more like hair or fuzz than the actual broad, modern bird feathers that we're used to seeing.

If they had any, I would think that they'd be very small, almost like an elephant's hairs, which are so small that they're barely visible from a distance. The larger most mammals get, the shorter their hair becomes. I feel like the same would be true of theropods, who were likely just as endothermic as most mammals were/are.
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Mood: Zest ~Crynosur Jan 2, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Actually dinosaurs and dragons could be the same thing in a way of saying.
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Mood: Joy *tarpalsfan Jan 1, 2013
Wonderful! This jawdropping awesome! I am to stunned to think of anything else to sat! Wow!!!!
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Mood: Bewildered ~Helixmaster Dec 26, 2012
I kinda wanna eat it now.
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~MaxterandKiwiKing Jan 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It'd probably eat you first. :dummy:
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Mood: Love =Parabuteo78 Dec 26, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Gorgeous piece, I love how the red feathers direct attention to the head and draw the eye into the picture.

And I absolutely agree with you. I don't like the idea of completely covering every dinosaur in feathers. Like you said nature is more varied, so feathers would probably be on different areas of the body and look different on each species.
Yes, they have found feathers, so they definitely had them. But they're not birds yet so do they have to be covered in them?
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~Kazuma27 Dec 22, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Badass!
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