The all new Velociraptor and why I laugh at 'science'

[Gandalf]

Regardless of any scientific theories, I must say that Im still very upset by that second picture of the Velociraptor. All those feathers and colours and flailing limbs looking all dressed up for Halloween. I used to love dinosaurs as a kid and would memorize all their names and collect books with wonderful images of these great lizards with leather like skin and teeth as sharp as knives. And here in my adulthood I am being told that the velociraptor was actually a multicoloured flamer with cutesy little feathers? Its disheartening to say the least.

We will have T Rex with a mullet and goatee beard next, as if the puny looking arms werent embarrassing enough! Leave my dinosaurs alone!

[kingfrnk]

I like dinosaurs. but a dinosaur having feathers is kinda weird but then again im no scientist. they probably have found a different species that has feathers on it.

[Kev]

Regardless of any scientific theories, I must say that Im still very upset by that second picture of the Velociraptor. All those feathers and colours and flailing limbs looking all dressed up for Halloween. I used to love dinosaurs as a kid and would memorize all their names and collect books with wonderful images of these great lizards with leather like skin and teeth as sharp as knives. And here in my adulthood I am being told that the velociraptor was actually a multicoloured flamer with cutesy little feathers? Its disheartening to say the least.

We will have T Rex with a mullet and goatee beard next, as if the puny looking arms werent embarrassing enough! Leave my dinosaurs alone!

It's funny you should mention T Rex a few years ago a concerted effort was undertaken by certain evolutionists to put feathers on the T Rex too. It is now accepted (I'm being serious) that the early ancestors of T Rex were feathered and that actual baby T Rex's were born with feathers but that these fell off as the animal matured.

It is also widely accepted that a T Rex is closer to a chicken than a crocodile.

Here's a new book on the subject courtesy of those perennial bullshitters The National Geographic

[Gandalf]

Maybe Im overlooking something obvious in my ignorance, but how do we possibly know if any of these creatures had feathers or not??

[El Kabong]

Maybe Im overlooking something obvious in my ignorance, but how do we possibly know if any of these creatures had feathers or not??

Fossils of course.

[Gandalf]

Maybe Im overlooking something obvious in my ignorance, but how do we possibly know if any of these creatures had feathers or not??

Fossils of course.

There are actually imprints of feathers in the rock?

I feel like a complete dummy regarding all this! I really havent a clue!