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The taphonomy of how skin and protofeathers preserve, or do not, is little known, and the positive presence of skin can’t automatically be taken as an indication protofeathers were absent. Not to mention that soft tissue remains like patches of skin are not always preserve in their original place. In rare cases both fluff and scales are found.

Some dinosaurs we know were feathered are preserved with plumage. The presence of fossilized skin can’t be taken as an indication that the preservation of these animals was pristine, or completely represents the entirety of their external appearance. Credit: Bell et al 2017įirst off, we’ve got to check our assumptions. But these scraps of ancient skin don’t preclude the presence of feathers for a variety of reasons. The preservation of scales on tyrannosaurs shows that they had scales, just like any other dinosaurs. So this proves the biggest, baddest tyrannosaurs were totally scaly, right? Well, no. No signs of fuzz or protofeather showed up. And in each case, the only integument known from these dinosaurs were blotches of scaly skin from areas of the neck, hips, and tail. These are the carnivores that we typically envision of when we think “tyrannosaur”, complete with big heads and spindly arms. The study in question, carried out by paleontologist Phil Bell and colleagues, surveyed patchy skin impressions from not only Tyrannosaurus itself, but its close relatives Tarbosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Albertosaurus, and Gorgosaurus. There’s little doubt that our favorite bone-chomper wore fluff. rex as the standard image of our favorite prehistoric beast just yet.

Lovers of old-school, scaly dinosaur renderings, rejoice!īut it’s not quite time to canonize the Jurassic Park T. rex and its kin ran around all kitted out in feathers. It’s a good day here at Dead Things: A new study provides a nice big nail in the coffin of the notion that T. Discover’s Gemma Tarlach was especially gleeful, writing: Stories this week have reveled in the announcement that no, T. rex was a reminder to do just that and allow dinosaurs to be weird in all their simultaneously scaly and feathery glory. “Let dinosaurs be dinosaurs”, paleontologist Peter Dodson once wrote, and a fluffed-up T.

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rex stranger, more like a real animal rather than a Steven Spielberg movie monster. I have to admit, I’ve enjoyed the tyrant’s shaggy makeover during the last few years. Tyrannosaurus rex – the tyrant king lizard, prize fighter of antiquity, most apex of apex predators, and supremely fluffy destroyer of dino fans dreams.

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