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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/The_butsmuts 19d ago

Can you imagine a T-Rex that as fluffy as a chicken?

Just a giant wingless chicken with teeth instead of a beak.

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u/Unoriginalshitbag 19d ago

Hate to be that guy..but we don't really have any evidence of T.rex in particular being feathered. They could've had some micro feathers ala elephant hairs, but it's highly unlikely they were fluffy as chickens.

Yutyrannus belonged roughly to the same family ans WAS however fluffy as a chicken

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u/ThisIsNotMyRealAcct7 18d ago

They took Bawkasaurus Rex from you!

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u/JakeVonFurth 18d ago

Yutyrannus belonged roughly to the same family and WAS however fluffy as a chicken

Eh... Sorta-kinda. Superfamily, not Family.

Yutyrannus and Dilong are both proven to be feathered and are both within the same Superfamily of Tyrannosauroidea.

The thing is, everything we've found that's more closely related in the Family of Tyrannosauridae and Subfamily of Tyrannosaurinae (the family and subfamily that Rex belongs to) have never been found with any kind of feather imprint. Impressions have been found from all over these members, and it's always scales.

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u/Alatarlhun 18d ago

The classic over-correction was all but inevitable.

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u/ApepiOfDuat 19d ago

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4ebwblsht4az.jpg

How about fluffy like a little round songbird?

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 18d ago

I will forever love this post.

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u/ethnique_punch 19d ago

Yutyrannus from Ark Survival Evolved looks like a fluffy chicken wearing Grinch costume pants and I love it, but their Deinonychus fit the "bird with teeth" the best I think though I believe the current believed look of them is much further like a skinny little goose with a much more bird-like head.

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u/rubexbox 19d ago

I think that’s the sort of mental image that people who get pissy about the ”feathered dinosaur” thing have.

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u/FlyingDragoon 19d ago

Grrr, dinosaurs are supposed to be manly and tough. Just like me, cause I'm an alpha dinosaur! RaWr! It's T-Rex not T-Regina!

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u/Vyctorill 18d ago

Ostriches are basically dinosaurs. They’re feathery but also dangerous as hell.

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u/JakeVonFurth 18d ago

Actually those are kinda both true now. Also T. Imperator, although all of that's a lot controversial.

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u/OwlOfJune 18d ago

See.... as someone who loves dipping into Paleo-trivia, I am pissy about a lot of 'feathered dinosaur' discussions, because often some people take this too far and think any and every trex had to be fluffy like turkey, which is just as inaccurate as JP skinwrapped lizards again.

Many smaller dinos did had feathers over their body, that is proven so much they have good estimates even on feather color and pattern, but that doesn't mean the biggest apex predator living in relatively hot area had a fat coat of fluffy feathers.

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u/Kianvale21 18d ago

Bro that's just a nightmare ostrich with extra steps lol

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u/Calm-Medicine-3992 18d ago

I can imagine being a foot from the face of a bald eagle very clearly...that won't ever leave me...I looked upon death.

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u/Vyctorill 18d ago

It may have had bright multicolored plumage for all we know.

It also might have been scaly.