Re: feathered T. Rex

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From: "Jack Ruttan" <jackr@axess.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: feathered T. Rex


>
> 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

Hello,
I find it highly unlikely that Tyrannosaurus rex had feathers,as the skin
impressions of it's relative,Albertosaurus (I think) show it to have a scaly
hide.
(I'll have to respectfully disagree with ideas of juvenile tyrannosaurids
being covered in downy insulation for reasons that have already been said by
others on the list.)

John Bridgman