dimanche 14 juin 2015

The Great Debate: Did T-Rex have feathers

With Jurassic World and dinosaur hype running wild this weekend, I pose a question of intense debate amongst paleontologists the last several years.

Several species of tyrannosauroids have been found with evidence of downy proto-feathers. The largest of these, Yutyrannus, was an ancestor to the T-Rex and was covered from head to toe in downy feathers. It's size was also pretty comparable to smaller T-Rexes, and the climate in which it lived only differed from Rex's by a couple of degrees Celsius.

So what do you think?


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