Dinosaur Thread

>>2380199
Beautiful
Well preserved dinosaur fossils are extremely fascinating because they look similar to the creature when it lived
The Nodosaur fossil looks so life like, yet has been buried for millions of years

Crazy cool

Its literally like a statue of a dinosaur

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>>2380199
>You get to live in a life time with Augmented Reality
>You will one day be able to see what these things looked like in 3D in your own living room

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>>2380199
speaking of new Ankylosaurs.... ZUUL MOTHER FUCKER ZUUL

>>2380521
They better make haptic gloves so I can stroke its beautiful feathers.

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>>2380199
an exquisite fossil

>>2380528
You'll be able to fuck one if you're so inclined anon. [spoiler]Fucking perv[/spoiler]

>>2380533
this was my exact thought. I assumed it was some computer thing so I just ignored it, but wow it's actually real

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So have featherfags been categorically BTFO?

>>2380714
What?

Nodosaurs did not have feathers

>>2380714
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/fossil-dinosaur-theropod-feather-evolution-discovery-china/

This kind of little autistic wars about factual things that either happened or not are one of the most retarded things humans do.
They are already dead so they (or some of them) either had feathers or not, your opinion on the subject will not change anything in any way.

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>>2380528
>feath
7 posts. That's all it took to try to claim a fucking Nodosaur had feathers. I hate stupid plebs being encouraged to """"like""""" science so god damned much. People like Bill Nye, Richard Dawkins and Tyson thought that by mainstreaming science they'd make people start acting the fuck right, instead it just made morons transform science into facebook-tier urban legends, exaggerations and urban legends.

>>2380724
>China
Stop right fucking there and go no further. Literally every single fossil from China from the past 30 years needs dumped in the trash.

>>2380753
I meant misunderstandings for the first "urban legends"

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>>2380714
>expecting Ankylosauria clade to have feathers

>>2380724
>your opinion on the subject will not change anything in any way
and there's the truth.

some definitely did, some definitely didn't.
most we don't know.
yet.

>>2380724
/aq/fag will shitpost about any subject, he's one of those "I know everything there is to know about everything" pseuds. Proof that anyone advertising their "oldfag status" is pure cancer.

>>2380724
>Future where all animals are gone
>Scientists find Legless Lizard fossil
>Scientist postulate there was at least one species of lizard without legs
>Release the news to the public
>Autists conclude all lizards did not have legs
>Go on to Neochan, make direct neural holo-memes how all lizards didn't have legs

And so is born Legfags vs. Nonlegfags.

>>2381032
>/aq/fag will shitpost about any subject
I'm the post directly above you, moron.

>>2381036
Feathershits can't understand that this is what they're fucking doing.

>Hurr durr but nobody ever said dat Ankylosaur hurr hurr
Yeah, they have. Featherfaggots have claimed that literally every single group of dinosaurs either had feathers or are descended from animals that do, which is simply as false as it's possible to get.

Fucking stupids ruined science.

>>2380714
nope we still know that a lot of them had feathers and a lot of them did not.

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Almost all the feather advocates I've seen were on Tumblr. Is that just a thing? What is seen as "progressive ideology" just flocks there? If it's anything to upset our natural understanding and social conventions, Tumblr will pick it up even if it's not tangentially related to race or gender politics? Do they just want social upheaval at this point?

>>2381039
You're being just as ridiculous as those you are accusing being ridiculous. Crafting strawmen and generalizing don't produce anything of worth. You're not doing anyone a favor by claiming that all people who support the idea that quills and feathers go back forget in the evolutionary history of dinosaurs force the idea that this means all dinosaurs were covered in feathers.

>>2381038
I know you are, and you're the post below this too. Continue pretending you contribute to this board you beautiful deluded middle aged faggot.

>>2381132
>strawmen
No, you fucking apologizing nigger. Featherfaggots have on multiple occasions attempted to claim ALL Archosaurs descend from an ancester with feather-like integument. Now get out. NOW. Featherfaggots are cancer and need to fuck off the hell out of biology. All fucking retards who don't understand biology need to. Including most modern biologists. It's just like politics at this point. Everyone is either pretending to be retarded now for political reasons or actually is fucking retarded.

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>>2381187

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>>2380199
Dinosaur thread?

>>2381113
what are you talking about? tumblr isn't a single entity. it's probably because they like fluffy shit

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>>2381187

>>2381587
>Tumblr isn't a single entity

Lol ever wonder why they assume we are?

>>2381659
>China
Hmm it's always China. How odd.

>>2381039
>be fan of scientific discoveries.
>fossils start revealing that some dinos had feathers.
>Mention it to co-worker
>"That's fucking dumb, don't go ruining dinosaurs by turning them into fucking birds, it sounds so god damn stupid not all dinosaurs have feathers....
>all I said was "He, they found some dinosaur fossils that have feathers, sounds pretty cool."
Are you my co-worker anon? Are you John?

>>2381936

except the most famous one from Solnhofen :P

>>2381936
> Falling for Chinese pro-evolution propaganda and fakes

coming from a communist country with forced abortions and a one child policy, frankly anyone who believes Chinese propaganda deserves tobe laughed at

>>2381036
Nice

>>2381936
>>2382121

And the Ornithomimus fossils from Alberta.

>>2381113
>What is seen as "progressive ideology" just flocks there?
I see what you did there

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>>2381021
I think that the majority of dinosaurs were feathered but I highly doubt that the ankylosaurids were feathered

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Also sorry to break it to you but the rex was feathered

>>2381936
Last time I checked dakotaraptor Tyrannosaurus rex triceratops and the pachy were American

>>2383069
Only theropods would have feathers desu.

Nice.
I read that previously we only had like, what, 4 fragmented fossils of ankylosaurus? So what they looked like was a huge guess(like most dinos). Maybe they just meant ankylosaurus and not ankylosaurids in general but this is a boss ass fossil. Good job, Canada.

>>2383070
>But only on the areas that we haven't found scales from

>>2383070
Wasn't this debunked? Why would a trex be feathered. What purpose would feathering have served on a creature that size?

>>2383071
>Last time I checked dakotaraptor Tyrannosaurus rex triceratops and the pachy were American
the funny part is we haven't found feathers for any of those.

they're inferred to have them based on Chinese fossils.

not saying the anon is right, just pointing to the irony of you arguing not all feathers are Chinese using Chinese feathers as your answer.

>>2383070
Oh look. I was wondering when this thread was gonna be about T.rex having feathers or not.
About damn time, I can't live without my T.rex shitposting.

>>2383069
Ankylosaurs probably had a feathered underside like how the armadillo and pangolin have fur on their underside.

>>2383550
I can see them being "bearded", with simple stage 1 feathers or quills all over the underside. It actually looks better in my mind.

>>2380714
No one expected every single dinosaur to be feathered except autists, probably not even every theropod was feathered.

>>2381383
I dont get it

>>2380199
Where's the feathers?

>>2383484
Most likely for insulation and thermal regulation. A naked dinosaur would not have likely been able to survive below-freezing temperatures, which we knew they could, if they didn't have some kind of buffer against the cold.

>>2385877
>A naked dinosaur would not have likely been able to survive below-freezing temperatures
just like alligators, huh?

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>>2385695
Dinosaurs never had feathers.
Anybody who says otherwise is a tremendous faggot.

>>2380755
'needs to be. '
Why do people drop the 'to be'
Fuck.

>>2385914
>meme generator
you must go back

>>2385914
t. butthurt pussy that thinks feathers ruins his childhood

Reality doesnt care about your feelings, faggot.

>>2380299
Online petitions don't do shit but I do want WWD back

>>2385939
Im trying to bring a tiny ass game back. If I sent them a petition with a few hundred signatures, I'm sure they would just upload the game to a place where we could play it. Its not that hard.

>>2385924
>>2385936
Both of these posters are tremendous faggots.
Dinos did not have feathers

>>2386025
If looking at scientific evidence and drawinf conclusions from it makes me a faggot, I'm a faggot.

>>2380199
Does anyone else feel really unimpressed with this? Like, when you actually see what dinosaurs really looked like you see they're basically just big crocodiles.

>>2380199
This is the coolest shit, thanks OP, I love the armored dinos. My favorite is euoplocephalus. He's a beast.

>>2386791
Looks more like a giant Horned lizard.

>>2385877
Good thing they didn't live in the arctic and the Earth was a whole lot warmer back then.

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Feathers can be cool.

>>2381383
>>2380533
I knew crocks and dinos were related, but holly shit the similarity is between those is uncanny.

Makes me wonder how far related these where, something i could easily do but am too lazy atm to research.

>>2380533
That's a game anon.

>>2387137
>Good thing they didn't live in the arctic
Thats not true
>>2387154
Good to see someone using the filename I came up with for that pic.

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>>2387310
They wren't very related at all, no more than any other dinosaur. The only resemblance would come from the armored plates.
It would've looked something like this. So, not as crocodilian as the fossil implies.

>>2381113
Will these grow in USDA zone 8 or should I ask the plant thread instead? I'm sick of paying grocery store prices for frozen pizza when I could have them fresh at home.