Feathered Dinosaurs

[Tapejara1122]

Was just wondering how many people disliked or liked the idea of dinosaurs being feathered. Feel free to leave a reason!

[Yutyrannus]

Yes! They're beautiful !

[tyrantqueen]

I like both (scaly and feathered).

Although, it doesn't really make a difference at the end of the day. If the science says they had feathers then that's what I go with, regardless of whether I like the way it looks or not. Many modern animals are ugly, strange or silly looking, but they still exist. I don't think dinosaurs would have been any different.

[Gwangi]

No issues with feathered dinosaurs here. I was fully on board with the birds are dinosaurs hypothesis when I was first introduced to it by "Jurassic Park" in 1993. I was super stoked when Sinosauropteryx was discovered back in 1996. When Sinornithosaurus was described in 1999 I started drawing feathers on my Velciraptors! I was 16 at that time. I fully embraced feathered dinosaurs, I wish more people would. The fossils don't lie, why fight it anyway?

[Balaur]

Whatever the science says, I like. And yes, feathered dinosaurs are cool! I don't like scaly dinosaurs because they're inaccurate.

[Raptoress]

Depends on the dinosaur in terms of aesthetics. I find feathers on dinosaurs such as Velociraptor believable, but to be honest (and I know people will hate me for this) I just can't picture feathers on a dinosaur like T. rex.

I just think some dinosaurs were feathered and some were scaley. I mean, dinosaurs are pretty diverse and weird.

[CityRaptor]

Well, evidence for feathers and feather-like structures is becoming more and more widespread. I like them. Ofcourse I don't think they all had feathers.

[Halichoeres]

I like my dinosaurs without feathers because they're easier to eat that way.

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[Dobber]

I'll admit that I was resistant to feathered dinosaurs when I first heard the theory, but I'm fully on board now. Though, I think some people go a bit far with it by making EVERY dinosaur have feathers. I think the Coelurosaurs where the feathered ones....and even then maybe not all of them.

Chris

[Patrx]

Feather everything! Scales are for squamates 

Seriously, though, it is indeed whatever the science says. These days, feathers are the parsimonious/conservative option, and scutes/reticulae/fragmented crocodilian-style keratin bits are more speculative (or in some cases, out-and-out wrong.) In any case, that's the great thing about animals - they don't care weather we're impressed by their looks or not!

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Calling "fowl" here...asking Patrx about feathered dinosaurs is like asking the mouse if cheese is good...or asking me If I have any psittacosaurus models....

[stargatedalek]

I most certainly do like feathered dinosaurs, so I had to answer yes naturally. But that's not to say I dislike scaled depictions outright. Retrosaurs have their own sort of charm.

[Patrx]

Calling "fowl" here...asking Patrx about feathered dinosaurs is like asking the mouse if cheese is good...or asking me If I have any psittacosaurus models....

Hah! True enough, that. I must, however, agree with StargateDalek on the grounds that I'm terribly attached to the Jurassic Park "raptors"; though I simply don't think of them as dinosaurs anymore.

[Arul]

I like feathered dinosaur  (only dromeosaur)

[joossa]

I like both (scaly and feathered).

Although, it doesn't really make a difference at the end of the day. If the science says they had feathers then that's what I go with, regardless of whether I like the way it looks or not. Many modern animals are ugly, strange or silly looking, but they still exist. I don't think dinosaurs would have been any different.

Well stated.

Now... on the topic of figures/models of featured dinos... I think they still have a ways to go to catch up with the quality of scaly dinos models. I think that mostly has to do with history and how featured dinos were only recently discovered. There has been some solid headway made in the last couple of years on that front, though.

[Dinomike]

Feathered dinosaurs rock!

[Plasticbeast95]

Huh, Im the only one to vote "no". 

[Mamasaurus]

Really, animals are so diverse, bizarre, beautiful, or even dorky-looking that we'll never know for sure exactly what dinosaurs looked like. That said, there is a lot of evidence for feathers as a common integument, so I prefer feathered depictions of those species and their relatives.  I also enjoy some of the more speculative reconstructions, and so long as the animal is believable as a real animal, and there is at least some grounds for the speculation, just about anything goes. 

[Takama]

Personally, i like Birds, so I like Feathered Dinosaurs which are almost like Birds.   I am a firm believer that ALL Coelurosaurs(From Velociratptor to T.Rex) had feathers.   Every other Meat eater like Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, And Masikasaurus appears wrong to me with feathers, until new evidence pops up.

Same thing goes for Planteaters.  Theirs no way A Sauropod had Feathers, and if they did, the would not show up on the hundreds of toys that are based on them.    Ceratopsinas im trying to learn more about. Psittacosaurus has those quills, but are they true Feathers? Same thing goes for Kulindadromeus. Is it really feathered? or are they just a new type of integument.

[HD-man]

I like feathered dinosaur  (only dromeosaur)

What about the other non-tyrannosaurid coelurosaurs?