[SeaLion]

A good example of some recent real science, and how science responds to new findings. Scientists can deal in incomplete evidence and still advance knowledge, revising/improving that knowledge as they go along.

Evolutionists: consistent with basic ToE, but a 'course-correction' revision in order, perhaps?

Creationists: perhaps we can have revised illustrations in some of the comics, so that terrified cavemen are depicted fleeing from feathered dinosaurs? Artistic licence is permitted for colour of the plummage, that won't conflict with current scientific evidence. :-)

Cordially

[Oztrich Boy]

"Who's a pretty boy then?"

[AngelesCrestHighway]

...THE popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other killer dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers....What??...Dinosaurs with boas?...another childhood image shattered...Gay Dinosaurs...sick...just sick!

[King Prout]

as I posted last week (or so) - has anyone given thought to the CAMOUFLAGE value feathers confer? I'm certain that early feather-like adaptations of scales would have had greater impact on pattern disruption than as thermal insulation.

[Mike Darancette]

"Fluffy" the T-Rex doesn't seem to inspire as much fear.

[LibKill]

T. Rex. 'Fluffy'?

Please say it ain't so! :(

[freedumb2003]

[NewJerseyJoe]

Here is a dinosaur WITHOUT feathers....

[Chaguito]

Feathers are thought to have evolved first to keep dinosaurs warm and only later as an aid to flight.

And the evidence is that they were also warm-blooded?

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

In trying to reconstruct dinosaur feathers, we should remember analogous use of hair in mammals: all mammals have hair, but very large mammals in warm climates tend to have very sparse hair (elephants, rhinos, hippos, etc) to better dissipate heat. I would imagine that dinosaurs of similar and larger size would also have sparse feathers, if they had feathers, so would appear to be more "scaly" rather than being totally covered by feathers.