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[โ€“] bytesonbike@discuss.online 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't ruin my dream of fluffy dinosaurs ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn't, like most big mammals. Bigger body, more heat to dissipate, but less relative surface to do so; the square-cube law can be a bit of a bitch, for big (probably at least somewhat) endothermic critters.

Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.

Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn't be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying...

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago

pretty sure we know basically 100% for certain that some species of T.Rex relatives were fluffy, the ones living in the arctic specifically iirc.

[โ€“] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

It is thought now that dinosaurs had a sort of fluff. Like feathers but not evolved to fly with yet.