Oh so pretty.
My favorite way to draw dinosaurs is usually with no feathers. At least when it comes to the bulbous way I like to draw T-Rex ( Ã la last post). But I feel super guilty for perpetuating a false understanding of dinosaurs. Like I’m one of those bozos that still think brontosaurs is a thing.
So here’s feathers galore. And he’s stunning.
Thanks for stopping.
Not all dinosaurs had feathers. It was mostly the earlier ones, and the ones that lived in colder climates. Samples of t-rex skin has been found to be scaly. While older relatives of the t-rex had feathers, the t-rex, and other similar dinosaurs of the same time period and size, probably weren’t covered in feathers.
Nope!
Dinosaurs are certainly related to birds, and most of these relations that have been connected are found in the later mesozoic. Theropod dinosaurs are the most direct family to birds.
Now, this doesn’t mean they flew – but many theropods (velociraptors, t-rexs) more than likely were covered in feathers. Perhaps for mating, perhaps for regulating temperature. But this has been accepted in paleontology for a couple decades now (which is why it upsets paleontologists that Jurassic Park movies continue to ignore feathers on most of their dinosaurs). It’s also likely that other families of dinosaurs had feathers, or feather-like structures, but because feathers do not preserve in fossils easily, the evidence is inconclusive thus far.
If you want to learn more, it’s really easy to look up (there’s…so many resources on this). Here’s a quick SciShow video if you have a minute or four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msk6qabQgPA