@GatoGordoGris@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 i mean the consensus is that tyrannosaurus probably didnt have a feather coat, because it lived in warm humid habitat and a thick feather coat would inhibit its ability to thermoregulate rather than help it. also we havent found evidence of it so it most people agree
@GatoGordoGris@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 birds are more anatomically similar to tyrannosaurus than brontosaurus is, so should brontosaurus not be a dinosaur? if birds arent dinosaurs then what are they?
@GatoGordoGris@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 yea actually humans behave and look a lot like their primate ancestors. you know, because theyre primates. they dont look exactly like australopithecus but they do look very similar, which is how we determined they are related. by looking at the skeletal anatomy
@GatoGordoGris@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 even if we didnt have these fossils, we could still infer many things by observing modern dinosaurs and mapping those characteristics onto prehistoric ones to see if they match. we do have a good idea of what they looked like dont pretend that we dont
@GatoGordoGris@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 and some dinosaur fossils literally let us see all these things at once so we have a perfect understanding of what that animal looked like when it was alive
@RedGrinner@Mapusart23 and it does absolutely nothing to hurt you๐i see more people complain about annoying dinosaur nerds than i actually see annoying dinosaur nerds