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Under feathered swans

a year ago by ickplant to c/mildlyinteresting

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MBech 68 points a year ago

Looks about as terrifying as they behave with feathers.

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wjrii 23 points a year ago

Well, I can confirm their geese cousins know who they are under those feathers.

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djsp 3 points a year ago

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CidVicious 66 points a year ago

This is a little bit unfair to paleoartists. A lot of the drawings people are most familiar with came from a time when there was less evidence for feathers. They absolutely update drawings as more fossils are found that change the picture, but we don't always go and look at the newest art. Just how much feather cover specific dinosaurs would have had is still a bit unknown but it's unlikely they would have had anywhere near as much feather cover as modern birds.

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Derpenheim 31 points a year ago

I have to disagree with that last point. Dinosaurs lasted a LONG time, and while.early dinosaurs certainly had little feather coverage, such as stegosaurus, later dinosaurs, such as yutyrannus and therozinosaurus, were absolutely covered.

Now, there were not "feathers", but feather like structures that eventually evolved into feathers in their descendants

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Blooper 5 points a year ago

What's a feather like structure look like?

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Derpenheim 6 points a year ago

Small, flaky scales that protruded out from the body

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Appoxo 1 point a year ago

Sounds like reptiles to me. Something like a sort of cross between fish and snakes?

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Klear 25 points a year ago

I love the art in Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. Such an amazing book!



(Sinosauropteryx, archeopteryx and anurognathus. And BTW the colours are accurate. We can find out now.)

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Wizard_Pope 9 points a year ago

Sorry but that last one is just so fucking goofy looking. If that thing came to attack me I would just die of laughter and it would then be able to eat me.

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Klear 5 points a year ago

Why would it attack you? It was the size of a budgie. Really doubt a budgie would be able to eat you no matter how hard it would try.

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XM34 4 points a year ago

I mean, really depends on the time period. Bugs are a surprisingly bad frame of size reference depending on the time period. Tha little insect might actually be human sized ^^'

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Wizard_Pope 1 point a year ago

Who knows. Animals can behave strangely sometimes. I also missed the bug so I had no idea how big it would be.

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points a year ago

Sounds like a successful hunting tactic to me

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Imgonnatrythis 21 points a year ago

Majestic creatures

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keen 19 points a year ago

Would not bang

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 14 points a year ago

I’ve done worse.

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ickplant 11 points a year ago

We believe you.

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lord_ryvan 2 points a year ago

Username checks out, eh?

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Kompressor 13 points a year ago

I hate its little zergling arms.

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atomicorange 12 points a year ago

Kinda captures their essential nature, though. The fluff is pretty deceptive.

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some_guy 8 points a year ago

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kandoh 2 points a year ago

Damn, just figured out what All Tomorrows is sort of made to look like

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maniclucky 7 points a year ago

Those pokemon are metal as fuck.

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iamnotafishuq 6 points a year ago

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flicker 5 points a year ago

It's triggering some sort of primal fear response in me. Which, honestly, I think is a good thing.

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Floodedwomb 2 points a year ago

Yes because paleoartists have never encountered a wing structure

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