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."

Comments

Artist's rendering:

[flimflam]

http://www.breatheinfo.com/images/big_bird.jpg

Just as well the feathers were left off

[jollyreaper]

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.

Re:Not Velociraptor at all.

[caluml]

What was depicted in the movie Jurassic Park was clearly Deinonychus.

I think you'll find it was just computer generated.

Re:Now we have to bring them back

[z0idberg]

and a diet Coke.

Re:new reason for extinctin of the dino's

[Anonymous Coward]

All those little 'created' humans walking around at the same time must have killed them all to make headdresses.

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?

Misleading picture

[merikari]

Clearly this is not a realistic portrayal of the dinosaur. It doesn't have a saddle, and Adam is missing from the picture too.