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Am I the only person who thinks that roaring, rampaging T-Rexes are purely a Hollywood creation? Why do we think a lizard would roar, no matter how large he was?
@CatherineofAragon I am guessing if you ever turned a corner and spotted a T-Rex hiding behind it ready to pounce,that you would be able to hear a roar. Even if it was in your head.
There's a line of study that suggest dinosaurs were more like birds than lizards:http://mentalfloss.com/article/77266/9-ways-dinosaurs-are-just-birds-amnhs-new-exhibitionGod knows that chickens are certainly loud enough and they're obviously a much smaller scale. So ... maybe?
Not gonna go there :nometalk:
@Polly TicksYeeahhh....I do see that could be a point if you believe in the dinosaur/bird theory, but I just can't get behind it. Personally, that is.
Siberian Discovery Suggests Almost All Dinosaurs Were Featheredhttps://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140724-feathered-siberia-dinosaur-scales-science/...Over the past two decades, discoveries in China have produced at least five species of feathered dinosaurs. But they all belonged to the theropod group of "raptor" dinosaurs, ancestors of modern birds.Now in a discovery reported by an international team in the journal Science, the new dinosaur species, Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus (KOO-lin-dah-DRO-mee-us ZAH-bike-kal-ik-kuss), suggests that feathers were all in the family. That's because the newly unearthed 4.5-foot-long (1.5 meter) two-legged runner was an "ornithischian" beaked dinosaur, belonging to a group ancestrally distinct from past theropod discoveries....
@thackney You can find other studies that contradict it, though. I don't personally believe it.
If you can point to one peer reviewed in the last decade or so, I would appreciate learning the info.
@thackney I've seen a few, but here's one from 2015, a year later than the article you posted.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/most-dinosaurs-had-scales-not-feathers-fossil-analysis-concludesUppsala University in Sweden working with the Natural History Museum in London and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The first dinosaurs evolved from reptiles more than 230 million years ago. Feathers are thought to have arisen more than once in dinosaur lineages, and while they live on and give flight to modern birds
Uhmm, after reading the article, it appear to agree that birds did come from dinosaurs.It just disagrees with the idea that all dinosaurs had feathers.
So,you are saying there were no French dinosaurs?