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Originally Posted by Kullat Nunu
Indeed, they (the velociraptors) look like frogs or something. Gigantic, wrong species (Deinonychus), hands are totally wrong, flexible tail... I don't think I can watch the movie anymore.
The bigger dinosaur species were certainly featherless. AFAIK only duck-billed dinosaur skin impressions are found, and they show no feathers but scales. Which is sensible since they are only distantly related to maniraptorians and feathers would have been disadvantageous for a large animal.
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Someone else posted on this above, I agree. I didn't mean all dinosaurs, but the later small models... And it bothers me even to think it... my brain wants to stick feathers (Or a feathery like appearance) on them. It may just be conditioning.
I remember when I first saw
Archaeopteryx. The feathered image just made sense, somehow.
But yeah- I can't see a stegosaurus feathered.
Jurassic Park, I recall that one claymation animator had made the "Velociraptors" flick their tongues out like a snake does. Fortunately, a science adviser saw that and told them "NO!" and it didn't make it into the movie.
But there was a disclaimer on the DVD version saying that the Velociraptors depicted were very much larger than any actual fossils found. This was around the time that UtahRaptor had been discovered, which was quite a bit larger than velociraptor but smaller than Deinonychus (Which is one of my favorites).