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My issues with the T rex skin study; WARNING: you have entered rant zone
Topic Started: Oct 30 2017, 07:44 AM (1,653 Views)
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It's notable Tyrannosaurus would've lived in similarly diverse environments as elephants.
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To end the conversation, elephants are still going to be a bad comparison overall. you could compare it to an Elephant bird, which, although isn't of size, lived in a very hot environment, and had primitive feathers akin to what we found on Yutyrannus. but, it still remains to have a shaggy coat.

Ive heard the elephant comparison one to many times and it's kinda annoying.

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Thats really no much comparison to be honest as those are not heavier than a ton, that only shows that an animal as large as a Dinornis can still keep its a great amount feathers even if climates are hot enough, same with Yutyrannus.

Look, unless you can find a reasonable and plausible counterpoint to refute the elephant comparison, you're not going to change anything, have animals of a size smaller than a Tyrannosaurus with large amounts of tegument is not weird.
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To end the conversation, elephants are still going to be a bad comparison overall. you could compare it to an Elephant bird, which, although isn't of size, lived in a very hot environment, and had primitive feathers akin to what we found on Yutyrannus. but, it still remains to have a shaggy coat.

Ive heard the elephant comparison one to many times and it's kinda annoying.

I think many people would disagree simply because of the size difference. Using the first weights from Google, a rex is well over an order of magnitude bigger than an elephant bird, while less than a fifth of an order bigger than an elephant.

In addition, we all agree that rex skin superficially resembles rhino skin more than it does elephant bird or ostrich skin. Thus, couldn't a rhino be the best analogue for dermal texture since it has the same dermal texture?
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