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[ZacWilliam1]

I was the dinosaur nut kid in elementary school. Paleontology was my thing from kindergarten to 6th grade.

I like feathered dinosaurs. They're exotic and cool and generally portrayed more colorfully. I really wish more media were portraying them that way. I think this shift is taking even longer to catch than the abandoning of the tail-dragging sluggish thing took to go away. I want to see bright colorful exotic feathered dinosaurs EVERYWHERE they show up.


-ZacWilliam, my Dino-fandom peaked with Jurrassic Park the book. The movie was good, but the book was AMAZING my freshman year of High School.

[2019]

Dinosaurs never went extinct.

[Tyranno]

I'm not sure how comparing dinosaurs to cuccoos is supposed to make them less cool and scary.

[Dr Syn]

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Dinosaurs never went extinct.

Only a cassowary can be so dangerous while looking so fabulous.

[Lazy Garou]

Bishiesaurs!

[Eva Sigma]

I hate feathered dinosaurs.

I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.

[Walky]

I hate feathered dinosaurs.

I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.

So sort of like how Edward Cullen is "MY vampire" for a generation of preteen girls. Okey doke!

[Eva Sigma]

I hate feathered dinosaurs.

I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.

So sort of like how Edward Cullen is "MY vampire" for a generation of preteen girls. Okey doke!

The difference being that the feathered dinosaurs are the Edward Cullen in this equation, while the thunder lizards are more Bela Lugosi.

[Walky]

Ha ha ha, no. Nothing like Jurassic Park's velociraptors ever existed, even according to science at the time. It was something completely made up to sell Books and Movies to teenagers, just like Edward Cullen.

You're just a Twihard.

[Tyranno]

You know what else was in Jurassic Park?

Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.

[Eva Sigma]

You know what else was in Jurassic Park?

Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.

A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

[2019]

Ha ha ha, no. Nothing like Jurassic Park's velociraptors ever existed, even according to science at the time. It was something completely made up to sell Books and Movies to teenagers, just like Edward Cullen.

You're just a Twihard.

Original vampires never existed either so your point is kind of lost in translation I think.

[NovaSaber]

Yeah Feathered Dinos just look completely ridiculous, and I'll never be able to take them seriously.

Realism is ridiculous?

I just want to point out on behalf of science that the current leading theory is that tyrannosaurs only sported small filamentous feathers as infants, which were shed off as the animals grew to adulthood, and adult t-rexes were as big and scaly as Jurassic Park made them out to be.

I want to point out that recently the remains of an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus was found with feathers. An adult ancestor. And so it's extremely likely that Tyrannosaurus did, too. The only reason to believe he didn't previously was that no large animal like him had been discovered with feathers in adulthood, but now there has.

http://www.wired.com...huali-feathers/

But there are also Tyrannosaurus skin impressions with scales. That doesn't necessarily prove that they didn't have feathers somewhere on their bodies, but they weren't completely covered in them like a lot of their relatives.

I was the dinosaur nut kid in elementary school. Paleontology was my thing from kindergarten to 6th grade.

I like feathered dinosaurs. They're exotic and cool and generally portrayed more colorfully. I really wish more media were portraying them that way. I think this shift is taking even longer to catch than the abandoning of the tail-dragging sluggish thing took to go away. I want to see bright colorful exotic feathered dinosaurs EVERYWHERE they show up.

The tail-dragging sluggish dinosaur idea didn't really completely fade from public consciousness until Jurassic Park.
So what we need is something equally high-profile that has feathered dinosaurs in it.

[Walky]

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.

[Eva Sigma]

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.

But what's going to get people's attention? The scientifically accurate dullard-bots that can barely do anything, or Optimus Prime?

I rest my case.

[Walky]

So what we need is something equally high-profile that has feathered dinosaurs in it.

Jurassic Park 4, apparently.

For reals.

[NovaSaber]

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.

But what's going to get people's attention? The scientifically accurate dullard-bots that can barely do anything, or Optimus Prime?

I rest my case.

And if Optimus Prime was named "ASIMO", you'd have a point.

[Tyranno]

You know what else was in Jurassic Park?

Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.

A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

I don't think it's cool. It turns what was actually the apex predator of its day into a hooting little lizard that vomits goo. The actual Dilophosaurus was twenty feet tall and wore a freaking CROWN on its head.

[Eva Sigma]

You know what else was in Jurassic Park?

Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.

A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?

Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.

I don't think it's cool. It turns what was actually the apex predator of its day into a hooting little lizard that vomits goo. The actual Dilophosaurus was twenty feet tall and wore a freaking CROWN on its head.

Really? Why didn't they put that into one of the movies?

They tried putting in a different predator in 3, but they screwed it up because I'm fairly sure Spinosaurus is a fish eating dinosaur.

[StarScreamZX]

I'm in feather denial myself. I'm thinking of donating money to some urmmm conservative organization that will fight these lies and fund their own fancy smancy scientific research which will of course clearly show that dinos did not have feathers.

"Americans FOR science and featherless skin"