Comments on: The Past Keeps Getting Cooler

By: Greg Leitich Smith

Greg Leitich Smith — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:25:42 +0000

Interesting. I’ve never actually heard anyone say dinosaurs are less cool now — when I present my novel and talk to kids and teens (and their parents), they all think it’s awesome that birds are dinosaurs and that they had feathers.

By: Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:57:28 +0000

It is not that ‘science’ is ruining the dinosaurs, but the ‘ignorant media interpreting science’ that is ruining dinosaurs. I can understand the frustration of some people, because to the general public, the feather thing is really being over emphasized. The press would have us believe nearly all dinosaurs were covered with feathers, when in reality there are plenty of them, including some of the bieggest, and ‘scariest’ that don’t seem to have any feathers. There is fossil evidence to prove that many dinosaurs were covered in scales, just as science and the general public have always believed.

By: Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:01:35 +0000

Of course feathers make dinosaurs less cool. Reducing heat-loss would have been an important function.

By: Henrique Niza

Henrique Niza — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:34:00 +0000

There is something so cute and true about that cartoon, if only more people would realize what feathered dinosaurs bring to the study of these animals that were.