*****SPAM***** RE: feathered T. Rex

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

Jack,

An excellent image of a feathered T.rex would be on a website of a famous 
paleoartist and DML member, Michael Skrepnick! 
<http://www.dinosaursinart.com/index.htm> But, if you see the baby T.rex it 
has more of a downy type. But the adult doesn't have any.

The current view I believe is that T.rex would have only had a feathery 
structure on its body, was during its juvenile stages, and it would begin 
losing it during its teenage years. A lot of discussions have talked about 
this matter in the past, look at the DML archives for more, an example: 
<http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2002Feb/msg00961.html>

All the best,

Steven Coombs
http://www.stevensdinosaurs.com


> From: "Jack Ruttan" <jackr@axess.com>
> Reply-To: jackr@axess.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: feathered T. Rex
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:33:52 -0500
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm an artist and dinosaur lover. Nothing professional here, but reading 
> the list has taught
> me what a "clade" and a "furcula" are. What fun!
>
> Anyhow, the dinosaurs I draw look more like they come from pokemon, but I 
> had a
> question, which searching through Yahoo didn't seem to help. Are there any 
> good pictures
> or models with an informed guess at what T. Rex looked like with feathers?
>
> My idea is something like a huge toothy vulture, but the drawings I've seen 
> seem to have
> frills and decorations like secretary birds. Does anyone have the time to 
> point me in the
> right direction, or at least tell me what search terms to use?
>
> Jack Ruttan, Montreal

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