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Eat this, scaly T. rex fans!; HAHAHAHAHAAA!
Topic Started: Apr 5 2012, 04:51 AM (16,949 Views)
Eotyrannus
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/04/yutyrannus-a-giant-tyrannosaur-with-feathers/#more-6682

Finally, there is good evidence that large tyrannosaurs had feathers! This is outside of the true tyrannosaurs, being more closely related to creatures such as Guanlong, but sheer size alone makes it a good bet that Tyrannosaurus had feathers.
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DinosaurMichael
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Really interesting. :)

Great find. Also welcome to the forums man.
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Eotyrannus
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Thanks!

It wasn't me who found it. It was Albertonykus from the Primal Carnage forums.
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DinosaurMichael
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Eotyrannus
Apr 5 2012, 05:02 AM
Thanks!

It wasn't me who found it. It was Albertonykus from the Primal Carnage forums.
You're welcome and oh alright then.
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Eotyrannus
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Seems like we have a scaly rex fanboy in the votes.
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coherentsheaf
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Here is an excelent discussion of this issue:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/04/04/giant-feathered-tyrannosaurs/
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Eotyrannus
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Second scaly rex fanboy in the votes.
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Megafelis Fatalis
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Maybe Tyrannosaurus was like this
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coherentsheaf
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Here is a link to the paper: http://www.xinglida.net/pdf/Xu_et_al_2012_Yutyrannus.pdf
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Eotyrannus
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@PreCat: Tyrannosaurus lived in a rather cold climate, like Yutyrannus, so it's quite likely that they had similar coats, with a slightly less shaggy version for T. rex.
@Coherentsheaf: Thanks!
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There's something about those arms on Tyrannosaurus that always bothers me. They look uncanny. I can't buy that those are its actual arms because they look so much like a deformity. I'm maintaining the hope that one day fossils will be uncovered that reveal T-Rex had arms of an appropriate length which it could utilize for a number of practical purposes, and those arms on the other skeletons were just birth defects or something.
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Apr 6 2012, 04:30 AM
There's something about those arms on Tyrannosaurus that always bothers me. They look uncanny. I can't buy that those are its actual arms because they look so much like a deformity. I'm maintaining the hope that one day fossils will be uncovered that reveal T-Rex had arms of an appropriate length which it could utilize for a number of practical purposes, and those arms on the other skeletons were just birth defects or something.
can u imagine Trex with long arms! OMG! that would be hilarious! though i would b happy to see Trex getting up comfortably during accidental fall. its somewhat disproportionate for trex to hav long arms or may ber iti s bcos we have seen it always with short arms!
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@Icestorm and Bitisgabonica: We've had many, many fossils of Tyrannosaurus. We've had many, many fossils of similar tyrannosaurs. We've had even more fossils of other tyrannosaurs. ALL of these tyrannosaurs had short arms. Are you suggesting that out of all of these preserved arms, they're all birth defects and every single tyrannosaur that had long arms hasn't been found? A birth defect is something different from the norm. Short tyrannosaur arms are the norm. Tyrannosaurs could get up comfortably anyway, since they've got strong enough legs. I don't need to use my arms to get up from a sitting position, so something that has legs as powerful as a tyrannosaur's will be able to get up as soon as it wants to.
Don't go to the tyrannosauroids to show long arms. I'm only talking about the true tyrannosaurs, and tyrannosauroids like Yu here are outside of the tyrannosaurs.
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Eotyrannus
Apr 5 2012, 06:43 PM
Second scaly rex fanboy in the votes.
Well, without doubt we have a big fanboy of fluffy T-rexes in the votes... rolleyes
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bitisgabonica
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Apr 6 2012, 07:46 PM
@Icestorm and Bitisgabonica: We've had many, many fossils of Tyrannosaurus. We've had many, many fossils of similar tyrannosaurs. We've had even more fossils of other tyrannosaurs. ALL of these tyrannosaurs had short arms. Are you suggesting that out of all of these preserved arms, they're all birth defects and every single tyrannosaur that had long arms hasn't been found? A birth defect is something different from the norm. Short tyrannosaur arms are the norm. Tyrannosaurs could get up comfortably anyway, since they've got strong enough legs. I don't need to use my arms to get up from a sitting position, so something that has legs as powerful as a tyrannosaur's will be able to get up as soon as it wants to.
Don't go to the tyrannosauroids to show long arms. I'm only talking about the true tyrannosaurs, and tyrannosauroids like Yu here are outside of the tyrannosaurs.
well i wasn referring to getting up from a sitting position. refer to my post. i said that during accidental fall Trex would find it easy to get up if it had long arms! just tell me of a person who gets up without using his arms after he fell down?
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