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Velociraptor Had Feathers
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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Constantly being tarred and feathered, the poor velociraptors were often the butt of the larger dinosaurs' jokes.
Nowhere is there proof that the 'raptors actually grew those feathers out of their skin!
No one tell Randall Munroe about this, or he'll start running away from birds.
Barrens Velociraptors, and most of them found through Azeroth have feathers too. Are these types related or they are distant cousins.
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I just can't take a giant feathered dinosaur seriously, even if it is chewing my face off. Just looks like a big fruity lizard with a feather boa, probably going to catch a Broadway show when it's done devouring me.
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What was depicted in the movie Jurassic Park was clearly Deinonychus.
I think you'll find it was just computer generated.
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What with America being so overweight and all, now we have to bring back the 'raptors.
I can see it now. A car pulls up to the drive-through. "I'd like the 48-pound chicken bucket, 4 pounds of mashed potatoes, and a 10-pound sack of beaks and feet"
"Would you like that Crunchy Jurassic, or Original Recipe?"
No, no... dinosaurs became extinct because they tasted terrible with the Colonel's secret herbs-and-spices recipe. Go back and read Darwin's famous treatise, Oregano on Species , where he proposes the theory that all food evolved from lesser forms of food -- the survival of the tastiest. After all, you don't see chickens, sheep, or beef cattle threatened with extinction, do you?
Clearly this is not a realistic portrayal of the dinosaur. It doesn't have a saddle, and Adam is missing from the picture too.
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It depends on what the intent of the post was. If it was to notify or remind XKCD to do a comic on the topic, it would be "cue". If it was to go to XKCD after reading slashdot, then it would be "queue".
Feathers/scales/hair/fingernails are all made of keratin, not chitin. Feathers are a form of scales??? Why the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached!
I used to bullseye those things in my T-16 back home.
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