It was recently proven that at least some dinosaurs had feathers after a piece of amber was found with a perfectly preserved dinosaur tail
I scanned and it said 2016? I thought we knew this for longer.
It was speculated for a long time, but the proof is only 10 years old
Huh. I’ll be.
Pretty sure we can, since there’s no keytars in the fossil record
Stylisaurus!
Dude!
Yes we can. Hair is a mammal thing.
Also, no hairy birds.
do we know that ONLY mammals had hair for the entirety of evolution? /genuine
I think early feathers were hairlike but obviously in the sense of fur that covered the body. There were a lot of evolutionary factors that led to out hair that’s (1.) only on the head and (2.) grows far longer than necessary.
we have hair all over our bodies. most of it is vellous hair though so it isnt as visible. we just have far less terminal hair than other primates, but the hair density isnt that much lower. as far as the head hair growing long, its not that its unnecessary its just for different purposes than most animal fur. head hair is primarily social, and people like people with long hair, so theres a social benefit to having nice head hair that can grow long. its so ingrained that being completely bald is socially isolating to some extent, especially for women.
There is a hairy frog. But he’s something of a psycho aberration.
Well you can’t just drop a bomb like that without backing it up
What the actual fuck is this misbegotten creature? It pumps blood into its hair, and it can break its toes to make Wolverine claws
Nature is metal
The hairy frog (Trichobatrachus robustus), also known as the horror frog or Wolverine frog
This is the greatest opening line in a Wikipedia article that I have ever read.
Very much the teenage mutant honey badger of frogs.
It’s highly probable if dinosaurs evolved to look like this they’d have trouble breeding and die out.
All the males only listened to Tatesaur, and then all the females lost interest.
But what if a group of dinosaurs independently evolved hair or something highly convergent to it, but then that lineage left no descendants among modern birds, leaving none of them with the trait?
If we are going to make up stuff we can’t prove or disprove, at least go big. Like maybe some of them breathed fire.
Maybe she’s born with it
That style went out of fasion eons ago
Dinosaur Jr?
She needs the fake eyelashes which for them may have been real
