This isn't really a comic but close enough (and yes there is more than just this one image under the link, but this one image is pretty great by itself)
They kinda look like Junji Ito was asked to draw a bird
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There's a lot of debate on feathers in some dinosaurs. Most dinosaurs lack the bone attachment nubs that birds tend to have, so it isn't as obvious when they had them and when they didn't. But then, evidence also points to dinos having more primitive feathers, so who knows.
And although I tend to write like one, I'm no expert, just a very interested enthusiast.
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There's a lot of debate on feathers in some dinosaurs. Most dinosaurs lack the bone attachment nubs that birds tend to have, so it isn't as obvious when they had them and when they didn't. But then, evidence also points to dinos having more primitive feathers, so who knows.
And although I tend to write like one, I'm no expert, just a very interested enthusiast.
OK the concept of "more primitive feathers" and what that might have looked like sounds fascinating. Have any artists tried drawing renditions?
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There's a lot of debate on feathers in some dinosaurs. Most dinosaurs lack the bone attachment nubs that birds tend to have, so it isn't as obvious when they had them and when they didn't. But then, evidence also points to dinos having more primitive feathers, so who knows.
And although I tend to write like one, I'm no expert, just a very interested enthusiast.
OK the concept of "more primitive feathers" and what that might have looked like sounds fascinating. Have any artists tried drawing renditions?
IIRC it's mostly just that some of them just had down (a.k.a. plumulaceous feathers) rather than the type of feather you'd see as, say, an ink pen (a.k.a. pennaceous feathers).
so fuzzy dinosaurs, basically
and yeah, that's like 50% of feathered dinosaur pictures
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There's a lot of debate on feathers in some dinosaurs. Most dinosaurs lack the bone attachment nubs that birds tend to have, so it isn't as obvious when they had them and when they didn't. But then, evidence also points to dinos having more primitive feathers, so who knows.
And although I tend to write like one, I'm no expert, just a very interested enthusiast.
OK the concept of "more primitive feathers" and what that might have looked like sounds fascinating. Have any artists tried drawing renditions?
IIRC it's mostly just that some of them just had down (a.k.a. plumulaceous feathers) rather than the type of feather you'd see as, say, an ink pen (a.k.a. pennaceous feathers).
so fuzzy dinosaurs, basically
and yeah, that's like 50% of feathered dinosaur pictures
Wasn't as soft as down, but lacked the main feather quill, with little quills coming off that, then more coming off those. So like fuzzy spikes, I suppose.
And those main quills leave little bumps on the bird's bone that show up long after it's died, which can tell a paleontologist that it had feathers. Most dinosaurs lack those bumps.
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Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
it's more like wolves had evolutionary pressure to lose their fear of humans so they could stand to approach closer to our refuse piles and scavenge food scraps from them
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it's more like wolves had evolutionary pressure to lose their fear of humans so they could stand to approach closer to our refuse piles and scavenge food scraps from them
MAN'S BEST FRIEND, THE NOBLE GARBAGE WOLF
Ironically now we have to fight to keep them out of it.
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Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
Doesn't that only mean that they have wings? And I mean like serious wings (although in dinosaus probably used for mating displays). Because only feathers large enough and sufficiently attached to be used as flight feathers leaves those marks, basic covering feathers don't (being only embedded in the skin itself).
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Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
Doesn't that only mean that they have wings? And I mean like serious wings (although in dinosaus probably used for mating displays). Because only feathers large enough and sufficiently attached to be used as flight feathers leaves those marks, basic covering feathers don't (being only embedded in the skin itself).
Man, I don't know.
I do think, from the last things I read a few years ago, that raptors may have been in the line that evolved into birds, so they might have had larger quill-type feathers at some point along the way. They still had hands, so to speak, so wings wouldn't really have been an option. As far as I know.
Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
Doesn't that only mean that they have wings? And I mean like serious wings (although in dinosaus probably used for mating displays). Because only feathers large enough and sufficiently attached to be used as flight feathers leaves those marks, basic covering feathers don't (being only embedded in the skin itself).
Man, I don't know.
I do think, from the last things I read a few years ago, that raptors may have been in the line that evolved into birds, so they might have had larger quill-type feathers at some point along the way. They still had hands, so to speak, so wings wouldn't really have been an option. As far as I know.
I'm just seeing a raptor doing a Bird of paradise style mating dance...
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More than likely, that would probably be accurate. Everything I've read or watched has suggested they were used to regulate body temperature or for mating displays just like modern birds and I don't see why they wouldn't have used them if they worked.
Without context from the articles I stole these from, this is what I'm talking about. These show quill knobs on dino bones...
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
Doesn't that only mean that they have wings? And I mean like serious wings (although in dinosaus probably used for mating displays). Because only feathers large enough and sufficiently attached to be used as flight feathers leaves those marks, basic covering feathers don't (being only embedded in the skin itself).
Man, I don't know.
I do think, from the last things I read a few years ago, that raptors may have been in the line that evolved into birds, so they might have had larger quill-type feathers at some point along the way. They still had hands, so to speak, so wings wouldn't really have been an option. As far as I know.
I'm just seeing a raptor doing a Bird of paradise style mating dance...
Not to mention raptors with a huge range of vocalisations
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It would p4obably be better to continue this discussion in a place more suited to it. So I combined a little frog DNA and some dino DNA and brought this back to life.
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Also, that scene kept returning to my mind when i see adora and catra interact
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And although I tend to write like one, I'm no expert, just a very interested enthusiast.
OK the concept of "more primitive feathers" and what that might have looked like sounds fascinating. Have any artists tried drawing renditions?
IIRC it's mostly just that some of them just had down (a.k.a. plumulaceous feathers) rather than the type of feather you'd see as, say, an ink pen (a.k.a. pennaceous feathers).
so fuzzy dinosaurs, basically
and yeah, that's like 50% of feathered dinosaur pictures
Wasn't as soft as down, but lacked the main feather quill, with little quills coming off that, then more coming off those. So like fuzzy spikes, I suppose.
And those main quills leave little bumps on the bird's bone that show up long after it's died, which can tell a paleontologist that it had feathers. Most dinosaurs lack those bumps.
Edit: And man, am I not explaining this right. Ok... the dino might have the main quill, with little fuzzy hair-like structures coming off that, but it would not have the fractal feathers that birds have, with little versions of the main quill branching off from the main quill, and so on, until there were little soft feather structures coming off those somewhere down the line. Someone with more knowledge help!
it's more like wolves had evolutionary pressure to lose their fear of humans so they could stand to approach closer to our refuse piles and scavenge food scraps from them
MAN'S BEST FRIEND, THE NOBLE GARBAGE WOLF
Ironically now we have to fight to keep them out of it.
Accurate.
Doesn't that only mean that they have wings? And I mean like serious wings (although in dinosaus probably used for mating displays). Because only feathers large enough and sufficiently attached to be used as flight feathers leaves those marks, basic covering feathers don't (being only embedded in the skin itself).
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Man, I don't know.
I do think, from the last things I read a few years ago, that raptors may have been in the line that evolved into birds, so they might have had larger quill-type feathers at some point along the way. They still had hands, so to speak, so wings wouldn't really have been an option. As far as I know.
I'm just seeing a raptor doing a Bird of paradise style mating dance...
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Not to mention raptors with a huge range of vocalisations
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