Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs

news.bbc ^ | 18 March 2009 | Victoria Gill

[JoeProBono]

discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs.

Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier.

This has raised the question of whether many more of the creatures may have been covered with similar bristles, or "dino-fuzz".

[JoeProBono]

Dinosaurs may have been more fuzzy than previously thought

[SolidWood]

[cripplecreek]

Well that was uncalled for.

[Reaganesque]

Seven minutes to post Hellen’s picture!! That’s got to be a world record! LOL

[JoeProBono]

[Reaganesque]

Can you imagine having a pet T-Rex called “Fluffy?”

[GunRunner]

Cool. I wonder if they evolved fur for weather/elements protection, camouflage, or both.

[PapaBear3625]

Given increasing evidence that dinosaurs were warm blooded, having scales evolve into a downy structure (that would eventually become feathers) would help them retain body heat, much like fur does on mammals.

[cripplecreek]

My albino velociraptor is named snowball.

[Reaganesque]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

Cassowaries are known from fossils of the Pliocene (about three million to seven million years ago) in New Guinea. Although not formally described until the nineteenth century, the first living cassowary to reach Europe was transported to Amsterdam in 1597.

him be big fella longa time...

[ValerieTexas]

viagaraptors and cialasaurus to the rescue

[flaglady47]

“Cool. I wonder if they evolved fur for weather/elements protection, camouflage, or both.”

They developed feathers so that they could turn into birds later.

[bert]

Similarly.... the isolated dodo

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FN.

Cassowaries are known from fossils of the Pliocene (about three million to seven million years ago) in New Guinea. Although not formally described until the nineteenth century, the first living cassowary to reach Europe was transported to Amsterdam in 1597.

I've always been a little wary of cassowaries.

[wolfcreek]

Look at the balls on this bad boy! Dromaeosaurus