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Nice article indeed. There are actually less feathered species than I expected. It reminded me of one of my favourite article about how dinosaurs are drawn [1]
by brmgb 6y ago
Nice article indeed. There are actually less feathered species than I expected.
It reminded me of one of my favourite article about how dinosaurs are drawn [1]. Two paleoartists draw modern animals like Hollywood draws dinosaurs. It was eyes opening to me. We mostly have skeletons of dinausors but fat and soft tissues play a very important role in how animals look.
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-animals https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-an...
- KineticLensman 6y agoYour link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-like things.
- Swizec 6y agoFunfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
- KineticLensman 6y agoExactly. I love this and sometimes think of the running birds in my garden as little velociraptors (or should I now say Deinonychus?)
- catalogia 6y agoYet for some reason nobody appreciates when I label the leftover chicken in the fridge "dino meat."
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- sergeykish 6y agoYes! We buy dinosaur eggs and dinosaur meat from dinosaur farms, wild dinosaurs play around and crap on statues. World is wonderful.
- bitwize 6y agoNot just birds -- humans who were born with no arms learn to become dextrous enough with their legs and feet to where they can cook, paint, operate a computer and even drive a car almost as well as if they'd had all four limbs. T. rex got along just fine with its stumpy little kiwi-bird wings.
- atombender 6y agoMany of those illustrations are by C.M. Kosemen, from the book All Yesterdays [1], which is fantastic. [1] https://smile.amazon.com/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-ebook/dp/B00A2VS55O https://smile.amazon.com/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaur...
- mohdmasd 6y agoBut dinosaurs were modeled after lizards and reptiles, not mammals. And looking at their most related living descendants, birds and crocodiles, I think popular illustrations are close to reality.
- a4wtaw4tawtawt 6y agoYep. This schlub is making as much of an educated guess as anyone else.