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Apr 15, 2014 · As for T. rex babies: Perhaps the young were born with a fluffy feather coat, a common phenomenon in birds, and then lost the majority of their feathers once they reached adulthood. “The bigger ...
- Helen Thompson
The dinosaurs were killed and interred quickly, and their soft tissues were locked in place. Many of these dinosaur skeletons are covered in feathers, including two tyrannosaurs – close cousins of T. rex –called Yutyrannus andDilong. This means that the ancestors of T. rex had feathers, which means T. rex probably did too.
Mar 15, 2019 · Scientists have also concluded that the adult T. rex was not just covered in scales, but also had a mullet of feathers on its head, neck, and tail. Paleontologists have found that the majority of T. rex hatchlings did not survive, and infants had at least a 60 percent chance of being killed as a result of starvation, disease, or predators.
Jun 8, 2017 · The Yutyrannus, discovered several years ago in China, stretched about 30 feet long and was covered in fine feathers. This dinosaur was smaller than the T. rex, but about the same size as the ...
- Brigit Katz
Jun 6, 2017 · But without direct proof that T. rex had feathers, some scientists decided to hunt for clues in the next-best place: fossilized skin. They examined the world's only known fossils of T. rex skin—from the neck, pelvis, and tail of a long-dead dino named Wyrex, stored since 2006 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas (above). They ...
Jun 7, 2017 · Recent evidence for feathers in theropods has led to speculations that the largest tyrannosaurids, including Tyrannosaurus rex, were extensively feathered.We describe fossil integument from Tyrannosaurus and other tyrannosaurids (Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus and Tarbosaurus), confirming that these large-bodied forms possessed scaly, reptilian-like skin.
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Sep 17, 2019 · Since larger warm-blooded animals can generate more body heat than they lose and retain more of it relative to their smaller counterparts, one could see larger tyrannosaurids like T. rex losing ...
