#protofeathers

[holly-ilex-artworks]

@knivesandteeth and @norafall inspired me to draw this 😍 Dinosaur protofeather body/facial feathering?? YES 🦖

Also, leave it to Garak to be in a relationship for decades and never tell his husband that he can in fact grow a beard and body feathers thanks to his Hebitian ancestry.

🦎🧸🪶

[tyrannus55]

Ubirajara, the controversy rages on.

Ubirajara, the controversy rages on.

At the moment this pictures were happening, I couldn’t post them for obvious reasons… this is Hector “Splintersaurus” Munive working on the first-ever model of Ubirajara, the strange, protofeathered and exotically ornate Sinosauropteryx-like theropod from Brazil I had reconstructed a while ago and was commenting in the previous post. He was basing this sculpture (soon to be released) on the…

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[rmyers08]

Keep trying to make this happen ... #dilophosaurus #jurassic #mesozoic #theropod #dinosaur #jurassicpark #protofeathers #enfluffening #paleoart #allyesterdays #artistsoninstagram #doodle #watercolor https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfzSj3FxmL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5dq88acf7s71

[tendervulture]

Two different ways of drawing IceWings, both taking inspiration from real-world animals. Snowflake was based off skulls of ice-age horses and polar bears, whereas Snowfox was based off a polar tyrannosaur called Nanuqsaurus. 

These were titled “I like your beard.png” and “Amazing how much your anatomy improves with one glance at a Nanuqsaurus skull.png”.

Also, Snowflake having a pretty beard (by Snowfox’s standards, which are what counts) + Snowfox having blackened teeth and tattoos= WIN

[bookrat]

Compsognathus~ 

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I heard a while back that there's some evidence for Crocodilians having fuzz at some point, based on alligator genetics. I have two questions. 1, is this true? and 2, if this is true, could it be that archosaurs evolve and then lose fuzz multiple times independently of each other? So Archosaurs are fuzz, then lose the fuzz, then re-evolve it? And this could explain how, if the Befuckening is true, feathered dinosaurs and pterosaurs could both exist without sharing a fuzzy ancestor?

It’s not true - the only thing the paper in question said was that feathers and croc scales were made of the same kind of keratin. Hardly means crocs had the blueprint for feathers.

More research is needed of course, as no one in development has looked for feather development genes in crocs, so the jury on that is still out.

If they are, however, ancestral to archosaurs, that would just mean pseudosuchians lost them. The common ancestor of pterosaurs and dinosaurs would still be fluffy.

[natalia-dinodrawer]

Tyrannosaurus rex, also known as T-rex is one of the most popular dinosaurs in the entire world. It was a massive predator from the Late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago.

The power of its jaws is unbelievable: 35 000–57 000 N. The same force of an elefant’s weight against the ground.

Although in popular culture it uses to appear as a gigantic bipedal lizard the new dinosaur discoveries like Yutyrannus suggest T-rex could had protofeathers.

So, dinosaurs are more close related to modern birds than other reptiles. It is curious to think how our view of these creatures changes throw the time. Even when it is the same animal and individual, the reconstrution in different decades is distinct.

Anyway, I left you with this T-rex sketch. 

Hope you like it.

You can watch it in my deviantart account.

http://dino-drawer.deviantart.com/art/T-rex-with-feathers-665718617

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

No I realize that it would still be homologous, my question is more around whether or the definition of feather would need to be stricter, or could be altered. Like could there be multiple types of fuzz, all with one ancestral structure, but which themselves are distinct enough to be considered different structures.

I mean that’s getting into “Feather political spectrum” right there, right? I personally would just all call them feathers...