Comments on: A Strange Sail-Backed, Bristly-Armed Dinosaur

By: A Beautiful Baby Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking

A Beautiful Baby Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:40:12 +0000

[...] to a subgroup called coelurosaurs. (The question of whether the non-coelurosaurian theropod Concavenator had feather-like bristles on its arms remains unresolved.) That includes another, roughly [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:50:19 +0000

Artist’s impression I believe.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:54:30 +0000

How can they figure out the skin tones and texture just with a computer rendering and some fossils? Can they find it in the DNA (if there’s any left?) or is this just an artist impression?

By: Kaje

Kaje — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:13:23 +0000

I’m just going to take the initiative and assume that every single freaking dinosaur ever had some sort of fluff. Scaled dinosaurs, and even the sparsely feathered reconstructions like the one above just look naked to me now.

Maned prosauropods! Ankylosaurs with soft fluffy underbellies! Pheasant tailed pachycephalosaurs! Bring ‘em on!

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:14:29 +0000

My first thought on seeing this was “landshark!” My second thought is, “That looks like a really fragile structure, and a good place to attack.” Then again, I don’t think most sharks have to worry about their dorsal fins being a major vulnerability – except from human predators.

By: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:36:09 +0000

Just want to add that the “impressed” statement was to imply the skin impressions. Later on I suggested it might “make quite a flap”, a reference to the alleged “quill nodes”.