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Feathered Heterodontosaur
Topic Started: Mar 20 2009, 02:59 PM (406 Views)
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http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/03/tianyulong_-_a_fuzzy_dinosaur_that_makes_the_origin_of_feath.php

So maniraptors weren't the only ones to have an insulating covering! I'd suspected this - it made sense, if they were also small bodied and warm blooded - it's nice to have evidence to back me up. What's interesting is that we don't yet know if they evolved their dinofuzz independantly or if it was inherited from a fuzzy ancestor.

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Indeed, I think proto feathers (sort like quills) were an original trait in Ornithodirans, having evolved into feathers in dinosaurs and fur in pterosaurs
Edited by Carlos, Mar 20 2009, 04:04 PM.
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There was evidence that Triceratops may have had a quilly hide. But now we had feathered ornithiscians? This proves that dinosaurs were more than just big lizards (they shouldn't be called "lizards" at all)! Pretty soon, we will recognize dinosaurs as something completely different from reptiles, thus killing the stereotype that dinosaurs were simply giant terrible lizards who enjoyed killing things for good. A Tyrannosaurus is just as different from a Petrolacosaurus as a mammoth is from an Archaeothyris.

Now just imagine if baby sauropods were feathered, though we do not have evidence to prove it yet.
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Actually, there's evidence sauropod babies were scaled, so no, they lacked down
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I researched, and found this:

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Which proves you right, but according to this source, the patches of skin preserved and found don't cover the whole body. Within the blog post I cited is an illustration of a baby sauropod with slight down made by Greg Paul in 1994.

Enevitably, if something else was found with feathers when we thought it didn't had any, people will start asking if sauropods and other dinosaurs had any feathers. Personally, I don't think it is impossible that baby sauropods had feathers of some sort, improbable, yes, but not impossible.
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Did it say what part of the body that is from, Anteater? Perhaps they had scaly legs and/or neck and fluff elsewhere.
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Source of the image: http://www.emfi.org/archaeology/dinoeggs.htm

The part of the body the skin sample comes from is most likely the back, according to the article. At first, I thought it was the lining of the belly (what is it called anyway?). So I sort of contradict myself, since feathers were more likely be on the torso. But who knows?
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Probably they had a feather mohawk
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this is an amazing discovery and i love its aplications in evolution and taxonomical data.
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