Feathered dinosaur freaks

[thetyrantlizard]

Here are some of the more egregious examples of feathered dinosaurs in the new book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Note again: NONE of these feathers has ever been found on the dinosaurs depicted. This has not stopped paleontologists however. They will say birds are dinosaurs, and even if the evidence is nonexistent or points directly in the opposite direction--i.e. juravenator--they will still insist. That is why paleontology isn't really a science, it has more to do with fantasy and science fiction. Very bad science fiction and fantasy, I might add.

Some raptors--deinonychus and utahraptor:

Dromeosaurs:

Look at how sickening and loathesome the dromeosaur is. Note also that much of dromeosaurus has actually not been discovered yet, and here they are clothing it in feathers. That's paleontology for you. Me, there's more evidence for Noah's Flood and the ark on Mount Ararat than of feathered dromeosaurs.

Here are some therizinosaurs. You won't believe this:

Blecch. And the only evidence of 'feathers' is a beipiaosaurus from Liaoning, which means that it is 99% likely to be a fraud, like cheap ripoffs of Rolex watches or Gucci bags. And even the alleged feathered beipiaosaurus had only protofeathers on its arms. Those aren't protofeathers in the drawing, those are writing quills.

Here are some oviraptors--or what the authors called oviraptors.


More next time I know I mentioned I can't be posting often, but I just had to get this out of my system, or I'd never be able to sleep tonight for the aggravation

[Thorondor 33]

*Pulls out barf bag and uses it*

[thetyrantlizard]

Here is a model velociraptor dinosaur. I was about to get it but then on close-up I saw--feathers. LOTS of feathers.

[thetyrantlizard]

Another version of the feathered horror.


. Just .

[Thorondor 33]

WHAT is that?

[thetyrantlizard]

Allegedly a velociraptor, according to the manufacturer

*Continues grumbling at putative raptor & rolling eyes*

[thetyrantlizard]

Would you guess this is dromeosaurus:



And here's a pelecanimimus. Note that there is ample physical fossil evidence that pelecanimimus was utterly featherless and covered by scaleless hide. Here is yet another instance when cladistics trumps the actual animal involved


Even carcharodontosaurus is now clad in feathers. Someone please mention that if a 6 or 7-ton dinosaur was clad in feathers it would die immediately of heat stroke, and that for an animal that size getting rid of heat is a much greater concern than generating or insulating it.


Who would ever have thought therizinosaurs were prehistoric emus?

[thetyrantlizard]

By the way, here is a diagram of the only remains of dromeosaurus that have actually been found. As you can see, it's a very very long stretch from the actual skeletal remains to that bizarre putative duck decoy above.


And palaeontologists complain no one takes their scientific theories seriously.

[thetyrantlizard]

I just reread, or at least attempted to understand, the Feduccia article last year about birds not being dinosaurs. The good news is that it is very likely the 'proto-fuzz' or alleged feathers found in the Liaoningsauruses are probably just collagen fibers and not feathers. So we can still have our scaly dinosaurs

The very bad news is that by the same token several creatures which have been long recognized as 'dinosaurs' are actually flightless birds -- think very mean chickens. These secondarily flightless birds include not only the Caudipteryx & the oviraptors but also *take a deep breath* microraptor, velociraptor, deinonychus, troodon, etc. Which means that raptors, since they are not dinosaurs but birds, probably were indeed covered in feathers

Yup, not a good day.

[thetyrantlizard]

Here is the latest velociraptor iteration. Now imagine JP4 with this as the villain.

[Thorondor 33]

It looks like something from a pet store.

[thetyrantlizard]

I was tempted to post it on the 'other' site as the secret sketch draft of Stan Winston for the velociraptors in JP 4 ;D

JP4--The Killer Canaries Strike Back.

[giganotoigauana]

that is absolutely horrable! that makes me want to poke my eyes out

[Thorondor 33]

If it makes you feel ant better, modern day Dinosaur sightings have reported no feathers.

[thetyrantlizard]

Ugh. The alleged four-winged feathered microraptor has reappeared. It allegedly flew like a biplane. Like so:



This is the most absurd flying creature I have ever seen. This convinces me more than ever that the 'feathers' on the microraptor are hoaxes. Does anybody seriously believe a creature that flies like that could actually have evolved? They even spoke about how there was a shift from the biplane method of microraptor to the monoplane configuration of archaeopteryx. But how could that be--archaeoraptor lived in the Jurassic, while microraptor was from the Cretaceous, so how did microraptor 'evolve' into archaeopteryx?

Here's another interpretation of the biplane method of flight. Notice the 'flight' feathers on the legs--they most certainly did not lie parallel to the feathers on the 'wings'. The feathers are PERPENDICULAR to each other, not parallel, so how could that resemble a biplane? How could such an arrangement assist in providing lift? If anything, with that many feathers pointing in different directions flight would have been hindered, not helped.