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So... Anonymous
Why do raptors have feathers now?
>> because Anonymous
Ice age came, raptors got cold
>> Anonymous
because science wants to ruin everything i love
>> Anonymous
FUCK
>> Anonymous
fossil evidence, evolution of the larder predatory birds being traced back to, essentially, this group, body structure making more sense when paired with other evidence, list may go on
>> Anonymous
lol larder, obviously meant larger
>> Anonymous
>>148881
I lol'd!
>> Anonymous
>>148881I am a degree 6 Zoosexual, sexually and emotionally attracted to Tyrannosaurs and nothing else

Don't know if this link still works, but I think you may have wrote this song: http://www.duckhills.net/media/duckhills/kayak/Duckhills-Kayak-04-Mrs_Tyrannosaur.mp3

"Mrs Tryrannosaur"
>> Anonymous
>>148881
Ahahahahah!
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>148899
>>148895
>>148894

Its copypasta. There is even a thread devoted to the copypasta up RIGHT NOW.
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor

have a bad day :)
>> Anonymous
deinonychus antirrhopus!
>> Anonymous
We like to think "Why not?"
>> Anonymous
I believe the Utahraptor doesn't.(Closest thing to the Jurassic Park raptors.)
>> Anonymous
>>148860

Because we're slightly less ignorant about dinosaurs now than we were a few years ago.

And really, what's so bad about feathered 'raptors? Personally, I think they look pretty cool like this; in hindsight, the old depiction of them standing upright and naked with long gangly arms hanging down to the ground looks kind of awkward now.

>>148939

Thing is, we don't know exactly when maniraptora began to develop feathers. Hell, we don't even know for sure it started with maniraptora; it may have even began further down the line with more primitive coelurosaurs. So it's hard to say for sure which 'raptors had feathers and which ones didn't, short of the ones we have definitive fossil proof for.

Utahraptor quite possibly did have feathers.
>> Anonymous
Looks like a cross between a phoenix and a dragon.
>> Anonymous
I could make anything look like anything with bones and plenty of play-dough
>> Anonymous
A Phaggon.
>> Anonymous
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probably for gliding to its food. lets you jump greater distances if you can glide.
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>>148881
>> Anonymous
>>148880
Well, it would literally be something like Megalokoitesornithes (singluar being Megalokoitesornis). Not quite as catchy, and not more accurate either, since birds are just a small group of maniraptorans inside the whole of dinosauria. We should drop the "sauria" though, since none of them were lizards.

>>148985
Actually it's pretty clear that the evolution of feathers began before maniraptorans evolved, in basal coelurosaurs. From there protofeathers were inherited to compsognathids, ornithomimids, maniraptorids and tyrannosaurids. Aerodynamic flight feathers probably didn't appear until the first true maniraptorans, though.
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greasy green greasels....