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| Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,443 Views) | |
| Incinerox | Nov 16 2014, 02:34 PM Post #766 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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And like I said, that kind of thick scaled, scuted texture seen in sauropods shows up again in Carnotaurus, with a VAST portion of its left side known, so we must assume that every dinosaur that evolved between the two clades had integument of that kind. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 16 2014, 02:44 PM Post #767 |
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It's worth noting that feathers can on occasion grow between scales, but even so the type of scales seen in most non-avian dinosaurs seems incompatible with feathers in my opinion. |
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| stargatedalek | Nov 16 2014, 03:05 PM Post #768 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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I never said it was most likely, just not impossible just a heads up, embryos mean nothing, bird embryos often don't have feathers either until after hatching (some do but not all) |
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| Yi Qi | Nov 16 2014, 03:19 PM Post #769 |
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but they don't show scales either, sauropod embryo's already have the scales we see in their adults. |
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| Swimming Spaghetti Monster | Nov 16 2014, 03:30 PM Post #770 |
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It could be that feathers grew between the scales in dinosaurs after they hatched, as they do on bare skin in birds. If feathers appeared only in coelurosaurs, how to explain the feather gene in crocodiles, then? |
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| DinoBear | Nov 16 2014, 03:47 PM Post #771 |
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Long story short: Need 'mo fossils. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 16 2014, 03:59 PM Post #772 |
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It kind of seems weird to me that the scuted, armour-like scales of Carnotaurus and sauropods would be covered by feathers. Like I said before, they don't really look compatible. |
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Nov 16 2014, 08:02 PM Post #773 |
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The Ectotherm
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Seeing as 3D fossils almost never preserve feathers, there's nothing against them in either of those fossils. And seeing as dinosaur scales are non-overlapping, there's no reason they couldn't go between them. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 16 2014, 08:08 PM Post #774 |
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No one ever said it was impossible, but it's still probably safer to reconstruct dinosaurs with scale impressions as scaly. |
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| Ulquiorra | Nov 16 2014, 08:23 PM Post #775 |
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Why did ammonites become extinct when they were a highly successful group of cephalopods and so common in the prehistoric seas? |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 16 2014, 08:28 PM Post #776 |
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Even highly successful groups can and have become extinct. |
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Nov 16 2014, 08:59 PM Post #777 |
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The Ectotherm
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According to Wikipedia:
But I'll have to look more into this. Enter google scholar! |
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| Incinerox | Nov 17 2014, 12:09 AM Post #778 |
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This is never seen in nature. This is an extremely risky assumption to make. |
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Nov 17 2014, 12:13 AM Post #779 |
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He meant something like Owls. Owls have feathers growing in between scales IIRC. |
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| BossAggron | Nov 17 2014, 12:13 AM Post #780 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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Didn't Kulindadromeus have the "Fur" Between the scales or am i just not remembering it correctly. |
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