Featherless velociraptors

Comments

• Icalasari

  2011-11-14 06:47:39

  No rainbow star

  It's called Science Marches On
• Kinkajou

  2011-11-14 06:56:34

  Kamen Rider MADOKA

  I'm fine with them pre-2000.

  
  

  But afterwards? No excuse there.
• Gelzo

  2011-11-14 09:04:36

  Pony Sleuth

  Those guys had feathers? I think I missed the memo.
• Kinkajou

  2011-11-14 18:35:37

  Kamen Rider MADOKA

  
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2011-11-14 18:49:31

  Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

  Why does the title of this thread currently make me think of the phrase "assless chaps"?
  
• Gelzo

  2011-11-14 19:29:54

  Pony Sleuth

  Because you're so gay that whenever you assless chaps assless chaps it looks like "assless chaps".
• Malkavian

  2011-11-14 19:32:04

  MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

  Has their status as pack creatures been discredited as well?
• Icalasari

  2011-11-14 20:04:25

  No rainbow star

  ^ They aren't pack creatures?
  
• Malkavian

  2011-11-14 20:08:11

  MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

  I don't know, It's why I'm asking.
• Ponicalica

  2011-11-14 21:17:52

  (void)

  Isn't «assless chaps» redundant, because all chaps are assless?
• Gelzo

  2011-11-15 01:05:56

  Pony Sleuth

  I am a fine young chap, and I do indeed posses an ass.
• Stormtroper

  2011-11-15 10:44:26

  Feathered velociraptors look like crap, that's why.
  
• captainbrass

  2011-11-15 12:24:03

  It's tough to get the audience scared if your characters are being chased by a six-foot tall man-eating turkey with an incredible turn of speed. There are shades of Monty Python there.

  
  

  Although IIRC, real velociraptors weren't as large or as fast as the ones in the Jurassic Park films anyway.
• MadassAlex

  2011-11-15 12:44:52

  One foot in front of the other, every day.

  JP velociraptors were actually deinonychus, if memory serves. At the time, the two were considered the same species, with the former being the infant form of the latter. As such, JP velociraptors existed under another name. I'm not sure if deinonychus was feathered, but I'd presume so.
  
• Kinkajou

  2011-11-18 06:59:28

  Kamen Rider MADOKA

  All dromaeosaurs are feathered anyway, so yes, Deinonychus is feathered.
• Icalasari

  2011-11-18 07:27:56

  No rainbow star

  Well, we could assume that the process required to bring them back required the genes for feathers to be removed/swapped out in such movies...
• Kinkajou

  2011-11-18 07:42:52

  Kamen Rider MADOKA

  Plus, JP's dinos are actually frogs that look and act like dinosaurs. :B
• MadassAlex

  2011-11-18 08:02:19

  One foot in front of the other, every day.

  Although that begs the question of why they didn't use bird DNA to fill in the gaps.
  
• Kinkajou

  2011-11-18 08:49:04

  Kamen Rider MADOKA

  They didn't know about the dino-bird connection.
• MadassAlex

  2011-11-18 09:16:03

  One foot in front of the other, every day.

  B-b-but they even reference it in the film. ._.
  
• Icalasari

  2011-11-18 09:36:36

  No rainbow star

  I think they said that there was something about the frogs that allowed it to work