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wattnurt t1_iurthvk wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How do Palaeontologists build image of an organism from fossils? How accurate is their method? by Firm_Brother_7124

>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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