Prehistoric Big Bird
The popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other predatory dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers…
Gareth Dyke, a palaeontologist of University College Dublin, will tell the BA Festival of Science being held in the city that most such creatures were coated with delicate feathery plumage that could even have been multi-coloured. Fossil evidence that such dinosaurs were feathered is now "irrefutable".
Somehow, a T-Rex is just that bit less terrifying when it looks like Big Bird… [via]
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