Feathered T-Rex Relative

[Amicale]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17612354

Yutyrannus lived long before T. rex, in the early Cretaceous Period


A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal - living or extinct.

The feathered meat-eating dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago and is estimated to have weighed a whopping 1,400kg as an adult.

The new species, known as Yutyrannus, has been identified from three fossils found in north-eastern China..... rest at the link

[Tank]

Well there goes Jurassic Parks credibility 

[joeactor]

Interesting.

I wonder what purpose the feathers served?

Also, I wonder how the wings are with BBQ sauce...

[Tank]

Interesting.

I wonder what purpose the feathers served?

Also, I wonder how the wings are with BBQ sauce...

Apart from flight feathers insulate and often form part of a species sexual dimorphism. It has been theorised that dinosaurs were warm blooded so insulation would be a good thing. Ostriches can't fly, are warm blooded and highly sexually dimorphic.   

[joeactor]

Interesting.

I wonder what purpose the feathers served?

Also, I wonder how the wings are with BBQ sauce...

Apart from flight feathers insulate and often form part of a species sexual dimorphism. It has been theorised that dinosaurs were warm blooded so insulation would be a good thing. Ostriches can't fly, are warm blooded and highly sexually dimorphic.   

makes sense... didn't realize ostriches were warm-blooded.  I assume emu's are also...

[Tank]

Interesting.

I wonder what purpose the feathers served?

Also, I wonder how the wings are with BBQ sauce...

Apart from flight feathers insulate and often form part of a species sexual dimorphism. It has been theorised that dinosaurs were warm blooded so insulation would be a good thing. Ostriches can't fly, are warm blooded and highly sexually dimorphic.   

makes sense... didn't realize ostriches were warm-blooded.  I assume emu's are also...

Birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs and are all warm blooded, so yes.

[Crow]

Birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs and are all warm blooded, so yes.

Yup, Building a dinosaur from a chicken is one of my favorite TED talks about the subject.