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Velociraptor Had Feathers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the well-and-wings-to-put-them-on dept.

Spy der Mann writes "A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History, appears in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science."

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  1. 2000 called... by suv4x4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And it wants it's shocking feathered velociraptor back.

    You can see Disocvery documentaries from years ago where the velociraptor is small and feathered.

    SO. F*CKIN'. WHAT.

    Yes, Jurassic Park is fiction, not documentary, and also the story says they filled-in some holes in the dino DNA with grod DNA and so on (so they're not perfect replica of the original dinosaurs).

    But also it's a damn entertainment movie. You can either get entertained (Jurassic's velcoraptors kick ass! well at least in the first two movies), or get pedantic and rediscovered the damn feathers each few years.

    As if someone gives a damn.