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[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is it all the dinosaurs? Or just ones from specific eras that likely had feathers? Ill try to find ou5 myself later. But if anybody has a link to something akin to "feathered dinos for dummies" id love to check it out

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what i've seen it's basically 50/50 if any one species had a significant amount of feathers, but feathers do seem to have existed in the earliest dinosaur ancestor so it could maybe potentially show up in any species.

Then you can get more detailed and memorize which kinds of dinosaur had what kind of feather covering, like sauropods seem to at most have some quills and similar decorations, while dromaeosaurs (dakotaraptor, velociraptor, etc) were basically big murder birds with full on wings.

But of course even within clades there could be significant difference: T.rex seems to have been, uh, covered in straight up skin like a giant plucked chicken.. but at least some of its relatives were mostly covered in feathers.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you! Now you owe me no explanation of course, and ill verify this information if I need to.

But may I ask, are you just well read in this department, or some sort of professional/expert?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

i'm just autistic and have re-watched all of Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong like 5 times

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

All birds today are actually coelurosauria dinosaurs, a group of theropods (T-rex and raptor-shape dinosaurs) who are thought to have all had feathers for warmth, show, and/or gliding and flight. I know we have evidence that some other theropods had feathers (or at least hairy stuff), but I don't know whether the rest of them are lacking evidence of feathers or whether we have evidence against them having feathers.

I would also love such a book, preferably with lots of pictures.