Tollorin
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17 Nov 2014, 7:52 pm
Take that Jurassic World! !!
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/20/a-velociraptor-without-feathers-isnt-a-velociraptor/
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17 Nov 2014, 8:45 pm
That's awesome. He almost looks birdlike. 
17 Nov 2014, 8:50 pm
Wow 
These 'feathers' look like quills.
18 Nov 2014, 2:20 am
I never get used to seeing feathered dinosaurs. I prefer my Velociraptors and the rest of them like they are pictured in Jurassic Park. I think it's really peculiar how first they only found bones and nothing else, and now they find feathers on every new dino they find. 
I wonder why today's reptiles don't have them. You'd think lizards at least would have them. Many years ago I made up a species of flying snakes for one of my stories.
18 Nov 2014, 11:48 am
I wonder why today's reptiles don't have them. You'd think lizards at least would have them. Many years ago I made up a species of flying snakes for one of my stories.
Lizards aren't that closely related to those feathered dinosaurs. Reptiles don't maintain their body temperature, while dinosaurs and birds do/did. That is possibly one of the reasons why feathers came about at first, to regulate temperature, which todays reptiles don't do except by sitting in the sun or shade.
19 Nov 2014, 5:04 am
