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armosaur (quokk.au)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

If ever there was a dinosaur that should be shown with feathers, this may be it

Edit: I have been proven conclusively wrong, good day. Ill bet it wished it had feathers, though. Struttin around like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for Carnotaurus:

Carnotaurus was further characterized by small, vestigialforelimbs and long, slender hind limbs. The skeleton is preserved with extensive skin impressions, showing a mosaic of small, non-overlapping scales approximately 5 mm in diameter. The mosaic was interrupted by large bumps that lined the sides of the animal, and there are no hints of feathers.

Scalation was similar across different body parts with the exception of the head, which apparently showed a different, irregular pattern of scales.[AL][15]There is no evidence of feathers.[7] Larger bump-like structures were distributed over the sides of the neck, back and tail in irregular rows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

That's so cool that we've come so far that a fairly fringe notion in my own childhood in the 90s is now not only presented as fact but so clearly presented going "and here's how we know!"

It's neat that I'm wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I also just want to say, I only found this when I went looking to find what kind of feather patterns they might’ve had lol