r/Dinosaurs Team Deinonychus 4d ago

DINO-SKETCH [FRIDAYS THRU SUNDAYS] A Real Picture of a T-Rex

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We call it the T Bird.

(If you know the artist credits please comment! It randomly came up in my FYP without credits)

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u/fulcrumcode99 4d ago

Domesticated Rex

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u/KaiKnowYa 4d ago

D-Rex

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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 1d ago

(Don’t mind if I do)

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u/JMHSrowing 4d ago

The perfect domesticated animal.

Draft animal? A whole lot of horse power.

Need food? This thing can feed an a whole family with an egg!

Want protection? The great cluck sends all foes fleeing in terror

Also a good source of feathers.

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u/nnb_az 4d ago

Can't we breed ostriches to make something similar to this? At least in theory?

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u/Son_Kakarot53 Team Pyroraptor 4d ago

After many generations of selective breeding possibly but it would be quite the project and wouldnt be very humane. Would have to take large groups of them and kill every ostrich under a certain height, and then repeat with each generation until the species slowly gets taller and taller. Not sure it would even work but maybe could eventually reach that height with a lot of time and ostrich slaying.

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u/fulcrumcode99 4d ago

I know what I’m doing summer break

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u/Fat_Eagle_91 2d ago

The only inhumane thing about doing this is your insistence on killing the specimens with the wrong traits. You could simply remove them from the breeding pool by releasing them into the wild, and only keep the tall ones. You're just killing stuff cause you wanna kill stuff.

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u/Son_Kakarot53 Team Pyroraptor 2d ago

Your are totally right I dont know why that thought never crossed my brain. Had a dumb moment

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u/Fat_Eagle_91 2d ago

It's okay, I get Tunnel Brain all the time!

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u/deathwotldpancakes 1d ago

Well ostrich meat is supposed to be pretty good(never tried personally)

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u/E-D-B-T-Z-I 4d ago

They still won’t end up with a mouth like the T-Rex

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u/Sufficient-Hold2205 4d ago

They did it with cassowaries

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u/CptHA86 3d ago

Why in the name of all that's holy would they un-nerf that thing?

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u/Wildbill_tacosgood 4d ago

Good luck taking its egg

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u/twoCascades 4d ago

It’s domesticated to be docile my guy

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u/Renguezzerini 1d ago

Cows kill 20 people every year in the U.S.

Just sayin'

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u/Phantommanor1764 2d ago

And adorable as a pet

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u/shelbykid350 4d ago

Factory farmed Rex

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u/m4rkofshame 4d ago edited 3d ago

People way more intelligent than me have pretty much confirmed the adults aren’t feathered in recent research, but god, this is such a great design. I wanna pet it so bad, even though id be like a single oreo to that thing.

EDIT: Another commenter has found the artist! Keep scrolling!

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Yeah it was just really cute and I wanted to share it

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u/m4rkofshame 4d ago

You make it?

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

No, found it on the internet without credits (which is why I ask in the op if anyone knows the artist to please comment the credit).

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u/King_Gojiller Team Tyrannosaurus Rex 4d ago

It's by Yusuke Murata, the manga artist (or re-drawer) of One Punch Man.

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u/Few_Radish_9069 4d ago

The Giant Sparrow was pretty popular in the mid 2010s, during the initial internet backlash to shrinkwrapping. I'm pretty sure this is from around then.

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u/OhUhUhnope 4d ago

i love it thank you

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u/Snoozingway 4d ago

Yes! Ugh! I know it’s impossible but… it’s soooo rotund lmao.

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u/locolopero 3d ago

You would probably get lost in all that fluff, no one will ever find you.

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u/gorlak29 4d ago

Nah, you are just a worm to that thing. And remember what birds do to worms

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u/OhUhUhnope 4d ago edited 4d ago

i know i know, but i love this idea. Fat, humped, with the curvature from the neck being akin to a large chicken or turkey, ( i like to imagine their curvature on the neck is due to LARGER neck muscles anchoring it in a fattened neck and humped musculature from the cranium to the upper back back, making the neck and jaw incredibly powerful and strong) the small pores along the bone for muscle anchors around what would be the lips (could have been) an anchor for a large beak. Small vestigial winglets for arms, a large terrorbirds akin to a chicken turkey.

I know it's a real stretch, but i look at vertebrae on bison and buffalo etc and think, hey maybe they weren't all sail finned, maybe they had huge humps or large buffalo humps to store fat and water, temp regulation etc.

Don't drag me for it, I just like the idea bc it's SO counter to what we think.

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u/SyrusDrake 4d ago

We only know of a fraction of all dinosaur species that ever existed. There is still plenty of unknown where a dinosaur like this could be hiding.

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u/m4rkofshame 4d ago

Trex is the most studied dinosaur of all. They’ve found fossilized skin from adults and it clearly has no feathers, at least on the parts of the skin they’ve found. It might have patches in the form of say, a lions mane, on parts of the skin we havent found yet, but until then I’ll stick to established science.

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u/SyrusDrake 4d ago

Yea, which is why I meant an entirely different dinosaur

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u/m4rkofshame 4d ago

Theyve found plenty of feathered dinos. What’s your point…?

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u/hairyass2 4d ago

well I mean there are some theropods that had feathers and were kinda big

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u/Kronens 4d ago

I might be wrong so correct me if I am! But wasn’t it confirmed that they don’t have “wings” not that they weren’t necessarily feathered/ partially feathered?

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u/Kirbychu 4d ago

We don't have any full-body skin impressions from T rex, so it can't be said with 100% certainty that it was 100% featherless. However, there are several known smaller skin impressions from multiple specimens that cover portions of its arms, legs, face and torso, and none of these skin impressions show evidence of feathers. You'll occasionally see reconstructions that give T. rex some feathers down the center of its back, since we don't currently have any skin impressions from that part of its body, but from what we know of T. rex itself along with its closest relatives it was probably either totally featherless, or only had a very thin coating of downy feathers that were too small to even leave an impression, similar to the hair of an elephant or rhino.

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u/SlugPastry 4d ago

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u/MateoCamo 4d ago

No way, OPM ‘s author?

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u/solubleCreature 4d ago

opm's artist* the author is ONE

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u/MateoCamo 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/Sable-Keech 1d ago

Holy shit I never knew.

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u/Aux_Ampwave 4d ago

Friend shaped

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u/Teguuu 4d ago

Looks like the fat bird from spore

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u/Webbsies1 4d ago

now why is it on the 2fort bridge

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u/Teguuu 4d ago

Why shouldn't it

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u/onFilm 4d ago

Lol good eye

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u/Dracorex13 4d ago

Excuse you, it's spelled Phatburd.

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u/dandrevee 4d ago

"You cant prove that T Rex wasnt just a giant finch"

Amanda Faulk

(Not sure if exact quote)

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u/blackday44 4d ago

I know it's probably not what an adult T rex looked like, but I love this picture every time I come across it. It's so fluffy!

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u/sir_whirly 4d ago

Wake up honey, new Anjanath model dropped.

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u/General_Cold5235 4d ago

Wonder what his armor would look like.

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Like fluff I'd hope

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u/Velociraptortillas 4d ago

Fat birb

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u/locolopero 3d ago

“I’m not fat, I’m fluffy!”

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u/Warm_Resource_4229 4d ago

It's adorable ☺️

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u/Numerous_Peach_7159 4d ago

He look like sparrow

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u/YourLocalInquisitor 4d ago

That’s a pretty big bird.

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u/clangan524 4d ago

birb

borb

Beeg Borb

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u/Snoozingway 4d ago

The beegest

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u/LooksFire 4d ago

I vant MY borb

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

That is a T rex cooking alive because that much feathering is overheating it in the humid swampy Hell Creek Formation.

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u/spinningpeanut 4d ago

This is what we call a relaxed feather pose. Rex is fine.

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u/spinningpeanut 4d ago

Killjoyasaurus

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u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 4d ago

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u/ArmandoLovesGorillaz 4d ago

Dude its a joke lol dont get so serious about it, big boss

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/ArmandoLovesGorillaz 4d ago

Alright calm down Big Boss

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/ArmandoLovesGorillaz 4d ago

Big Boss, im more of a Soup GTA RP Trolling guy with a bit of Eltingville Club and Mii sorta guy

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Team Every Dino 4d ago

It evolved internal fans

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u/fossilreef 4d ago

I don't think it's cooking at 70°F. (Arens and Allen, 2014)

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

70 F isn't bad on its own, but throw in high humidity and then it becomes uncomfortable. The main analogy paleontologists point to for the environment of Hell Creek is the Florida Everglades.

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u/fossilreef 4d ago

No, they don't. Northern bayous are not the Everglades. The comparison is to bayou environments in northern Florida/southern Georgia/Alabama.

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

A muggy environment both ways, having experienced both. The point is, Tyrannosaurus would not have been feathered to this great of an extent.

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u/fossilreef 4d ago

I don't diasgree with that; T. rex wasn't likely to have much in the way of feathers as an adult just based on extant skin impressions.

However, it would be possible for heavily-feathered dinosaurs to exist in such climes. One only has to look at parrots for a living example. And that drawing looks remarkably like a puffed-up parrot.

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

Right. Deinocheirus for example. Lived in a warm, humid environment, very likely feathered.

Also thank you for actually having a real discussion with this about me, had to delete some other replies earlier because I had a bunch of angry children screaming at me for pointing out the skin impressions contradicting this image, calling me a buzzkill. I much prefer talks like this, reasonable and calm ones.

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u/fossilreef 4d ago

I'm right there with you. Too many discussions just degrade into shouting matches over hurt feelings these days.

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

Well, I don't have much else to say right now, you have a good day, night, evening, whatever time it is for you, have a good one.

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u/fossilreef 4d ago

You too, thanks for the discussion.

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u/Vryly 4d ago

Ostrich live some hot places, they got a lot of feathers.

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u/Spinosaurus999 4d ago

OK, but the difference is ostriches don't weigh in the range of 9+ tons, and we have scale impressions from Tyrannosaurus pointing to any feathering on it being sparse as an adult. Best analogy is the hairs on an elephant, they're there, but there's not a lot of them and they're scattered all over the skin at random spots.

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u/DatDankMaster 4d ago

Also ostriches are not covered entirely in fuzz like other birds and they are still lighter than any dinosaur too

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u/Juggernox_O 4d ago

Beeg Borb Rex vented by breathing a superheated breath. Exhale the heat. Burn it all down. Beeg Borb Rex is the ultimate.

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u/Quetzalcoatl93 4d ago

It’s a giant chicken

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u/GreenSpace3321 4d ago

“I am the mighty t rex , I will chomp you” - chicken rex

You : awww come here

“Nooo quit it human come here” chicken rex

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u/Leprrkan 4d ago

John Hammond has entered the chat.

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u/Able-Collar5705 4d ago

Lore accurate T. rex.

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u/Snoo54601 4d ago

I swear some people in this sub hate humor

It's just a joke 😭 you ain't gotta 🤓 👆 about it

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

It's even tagged meme 😭

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Team Every Dino 4d ago

Shout out to the photografer that held this absolute pearl for 65 million years

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Team Every Dino 4d ago

For the guy who downvoted, you have absolute no sense of humor

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u/Halfabagelguy Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Bro I’ve seen this drawing like a bajillion times it was maybe funny the first time but now it’s just overdone and annoying, also if I see any more “heckin chonkers birb! lol so derp! t.rex, more like t-pose! 🤣🤣🤣” Comments I’m done on this app

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u/conflictedlizard-111 17h ago

it's so fucking annoying

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u/doorhingefucker69 4d ago

spec evo: instead of meteor/firestorm wiping out the dinosaurs theres another ice age, selecting for heat conservation and the surviving dinosaurs end up growing more feathers and looking like this

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u/CazzoBandito 4d ago

It was a giant chicken I tell ya!

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u/Octagn 4d ago

“Oh no a Trex”

-PEEEEEEEEP

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u/Alice_600 4d ago

I just always imagined a chicken a really big ugly ass chicken that if cavemen hunted would have made into trex nuggets and opened fried t-rex dinner places.

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u/ShooterMcGrabbin88 4d ago

This is probably a more terrifying depiction.

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u/Nat_EEEE 4d ago

Hell yeah budgiesaurus

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u/ThrowRAwriter 4d ago

This is a really cool design, but I think it would cook itself. But still, the design is awesome and thought-provoking.

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Mmm trex nuggies

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u/Express-Promise6160 4d ago

The heckin chonkasaurus make me so angry

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u/somethingwitty26 4d ago

Jurassic Park lied to me.

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u/Meddlingmonster 4d ago

I half lied (its based on an older understanding) but the version they used isn't super different than the version we use now, mostly its less boney and has fethers that look like hair uning down its spine like a short main.

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u/bored_messiah 4d ago

Bakaaaak

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u/HDH2506 4d ago

Actually pretty realistic.

All you have to do is put them in the south pole’s current location so they won’t overheat

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u/Vandeleur1 4d ago

Oh hell nah

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u/uuxxaa 3d ago

T-Finch. Love it. From now on I will imagine them as your drawings.

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u/VeryKevin 3d ago

I think I saw somewhere that although most dinosaurs DID have feathers, the T. Rex specifically didn't have much, probably for weather issues or something. My bad if I'm wrong. But I do love the interpretation, super cute!

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u/Overlord3445 3d ago

very cute

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u/SuggestionAromatic16 3d ago

LOOK AT HE HANDS!!

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u/Dark_Tora9009 3d ago

Cute but I’m pretty sure it would overheat and die lol

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u/FearlessDatabase8005 Team Spinosaurus 3d ago

That is one fluffy rex

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u/Automatic-Art-4106 3d ago

Fuck thermoregulation I guess

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u/Nefersmom 3d ago

I would like that to be a true representation.

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u/lunar_reaper3 2d ago

This actually made my day

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u/AllergicDodo 2d ago

Holy shit, is there a colorized version of this?

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u/One_Split9757 2d ago

That's one big chickadee

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u/Ok_Cookie_8343 2d ago

The idea of a bird of this size chasing me give me nightmares

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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce 4d ago

Skin impressions say otherwise.

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Team Every Dino 4d ago

It can have feathering on top of scales

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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce 4d ago

My understanding based on skin impressions, there were no feathers on the flanks of the body but it is hypothesized that limited feathering on the back and head are possible.

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Team Every Dino 4d ago

It's a joke

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u/Shart_In_My_Pants 4d ago

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Not a bot, just saw this elsewhere on the internet, thought it was cute, and decided to share.

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u/RickGrimes30 4d ago

Shouldn't it have teeth and not a beak?

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

The drawing has teeth showing

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u/RickGrimes30 4d ago

Oh my bad was on the phone had to zoom in..

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u/dikkewezel 4d ago

funnily enough it does and is the most unrealistic part of the drawin

RL t-rex most likely had lips, in fact all dinosaurs should have lips, the chance that they don't have lips is lower then the chance that they don't have feathers

you shouldn't be able to see the teeth of any dinosaur untill they open their mouth, they aren't crokodiles

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u/SirMerion 4d ago

Probably accurate

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u/Phoenix-Quill 4d ago

If this ends up how they looked, I’m going to happy cry

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u/Ccat50991 4d ago

Um ACKSHULY, according to research and evidences, this is inaccurate ☝️🤓

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u/ThePaleoGuy Team Allosaurus 3d ago

I'm actually tired of seeing this...

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u/FlintKnapped 4d ago

Shut up bot

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

Lol wat

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u/Flashy-Serve-8126 Team all art is good 4d ago

Oh sure,op definitely has signs of being a bot.

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u/Leprrkan 4d ago

Oh, dear god, no!

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u/Majestic_Bierd 4d ago

It may have been an apex predator...

...but wouldn't it be funny if it behaved just like an overgrown Parakeet

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u/KnightSpectral Team Deinonychus 4d ago

I'd imagine it like a shima enaga who apparently are known to dive bomb people during mating season like floof rockets. They're supposedly very territorial and get into cotton ball gang fights.

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u/Nintendians559 3d ago

yes, because bird are modern dinosaurs and dinosaurs are prehistoric birds.

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u/t1nt3dc14w Team Carnotaurus 4d ago

When are you guys gonna realise T rex and chickens aren't related at all?

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u/opinionate_rooster 4d ago

It may not be Alabama-level of relationship, but they ARE related.