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[deleted] t1_iurslo5 wrote

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Ltates t1_iusmgbl wrote

The “modern” image you linked is actually a meme and not a modern interpretation of T. rex. It’s because, post 2010s, there was an overcompensation to thicc and feathery tyrannosaurs after the discovery of larger feathered relatives and people went a bit overboard.

Here is the most modern take on Sue the T. rex and an edmontosaur that is displayed in the field museum and made by blue rhino studio. Highly recommend checking out their paleo art and sculptures, they’re gorgeous and very accurate to the known science.

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nicolasknight t1_iusofgq wrote

You are entirely correct this was just the closest I could find right now on short notice but it carries the point across.

Still, yours is quite a bit closer to what actual scientists think was reality.

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frontal_robotomy t1_ius0y7w wrote

Can you post a different link? Getting a 403 Forbidden error with this one

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crazy1000 t1_ius2n4s wrote

Same, this worked for me https://external-preview.redd.it/1aIib08nONHHJ-HNABoUWlocs_vwrNtJs58e24xoAXE.jpg?auto=webp&s=0a3f619388dd232694481d68f346cc0d65e28224

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echosixwhiskey t1_iux8l4h wrote

Ok but where are the little arms? If it had a beak then wouldn’t that have fossilized too? What happened to the teeth?

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wattnurt t1_iurthvk wrote

>https://external-preview.redd.it/1aIib08nONHHJ-HNABoUWlocs_vwrNtJs58e24xoAXE.jpg?auto=webp&s=0a3f619388dd232694481d68f346cc0d65e28224

I had never seen this, but man that makes so much more sense. Essentially a flightless bird with vestigial wing arms.

Similarly, this is an owl skeleton.

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danby t1_iusfjb0 wrote

There's still a lot of arguments over what kind of musculature and what types of feathers and how sparse they might have been so that actual appearance is still open to a lot of artistic interpretation, but there's increasing evidence that many dinosaurs would have been feathered. And we have fossil evidence of this for about 50 species (I think)

And for T.Rex we know that some close relatives had feathers: https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg25133560-800-t-rex-with-feathers-chinas-fossils-are-rewriting-the-dinosaur-story/

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Tiktaalik414 t1_iusp3py wrote

I’m having a hard time believing the scientific validity of that image given that Saitama from One Punch Man is drawn next to it. I don’t doubt that T. Rex had feathers of some sort, but I don’t believe they were as fluffy as this drawing would have you believe. If anything I would guess they probably looked more like a cassowary with a long meaty tail

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oracle427 t1_iusrfnp wrote

Wait what? That is the modern rendering of a trex? That looks nothing like the original ones

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notabillionaire__yet t1_ius0ytj wrote

Is there another link for that image? I'm just getting an error when I click on it

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