Yeah, we also need to consider that dinosaurs lived at a time that was significantly warmer than now, so having thick feathers would likely overheat them
smaller raptors most likely had feathers all over. Probably not a thick coat though.
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Like a baby bird, they were covered in down. Abelisaurs, basically Gondwana's equivalent to tyrannosaurs, despite being advanced theropods did not have feathers as they evolved from ceratosaurs while other advanced theropods evolved from coelurosaurs. And one of the largest abelisaurs, Carnotaurus, was discovered with skin impressions that showed they had rough scaly skin.
All of them, when young, most likely had feathers and kept a few for mating purposes as you described. Small raptors, as I was saying, most likely kept them. I know you know I know you know velociraptors were more like mad turkeys with larger claws than a freaking utahraptor.
Yep. A feathered tail was found in amber last year and it isn't that feathery. There were just a few. However, it is true that t-rex must have had feathers on his arms (not developped into wings, just arms with a +5charisma, -5mobility). So yeah, it' probably a mix between the big traditional lizard and this fucking big sparrow.
WT the actual F?
This takes me to the Dutch Google homepage.
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Huh, strange. Worked when I tried it. Anyway, I just googled "baboon tail" and linked the first picture if you really want to see what I was trying to show
The illustrations of the swan and the baboon are taken from the second half of a book called All Yesterdays, the first half of which is filled with much more speculative illustrations of dinosaurs than normal, while the second half is as if a future alien civilization came across fossils of animals that live now and drew them like we draw dinosaurs.
For instance, the way one particular dinosaur is often drawn: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Leaellynasaura_BW.jpg
And the way they are drawn in All Yesterdays: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vcoBhVWcAXs/ULGkMMfVlwI/AAAAAAAAATI/zZtP51ptxho/s400/ay_leaellynasaura.jpg
Of course, the latter is not terribly likely to be accurate, but the point is that we could afford to not shrink-wrap dinosaurs and think of what their squishy, non-skeletal bits may have looked like.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/02/crystal-head-vodka-facial-reconstruction.html
http://theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/860
And another one
Edit: nvm link doesn't work
This takes me to the Dutch Google homepage.
For instance, the way one particular dinosaur is often drawn: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Leaellynasaura_BW.jpg
And the way they are drawn in All Yesterdays: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vcoBhVWcAXs/ULGkMMfVlwI/AAAAAAAAATI/zZtP51ptxho/s400/ay_leaellynasaura.jpg
Of course, the latter is not terribly likely to be accurate, but the point is that we could afford to not shrink-wrap dinosaurs and think of what their squishy, non-skeletal bits may have looked like.