I still don't want one as a pet.
Posted on 12/28/2017 2:11:36 PM PST by mairdie
With a roar loud enough to shake a forest and a green, scaly skin, it has long been regarded as the slickest villain of the prehistoric world.
But according to a new TV programme, Tyrannosaurus Rex looked entirely different to the terrifying image so familiar from depictions on the silver screen. According to a new documentary, Tyrannosaurus Rex may not have been as terrifying as its depictions on the silver screen
According to a new documentary, Tyrannosaurus Rex may not have been as terrifying as its depictions on the silver screen
The dinosaur had black, bristly tufts of feathers and orange markings around its eyes - while its roar portrayed with so much dramatic skill in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park may never have existed, with the predator instead emitting a virtually inaudible rumble.
In his upcoming BBC2 documentary, The Real T.rex with Chris Packham, the presenter re-imagines what the beast may have looked like with the help of expert palaeontologists, claiming ‘early science and popular culture got it all wrong’.
Through analysing fossils of dinosaur bones, skin, teeth and musculature, it is revealed the animal may have had more in common with birds than reptiles – including feathers and markings around its eyes.
Although the T.rex in Jurassic Park has a deep green skin, Professor Julia Clarke of the University of Texas believes the animal was covered in dark patches.
From looking at fossilised dinosaur skin under an electron scanning microscope, she found the same structures that produce melanin - the biological pigment that give us freckles or a tan – in the fossilised skin.
From this, and by looking at modern animals thought to be related to the T.rex, she maintains the dinosaur would be ‘coloured in a palette of browns, blacks, maybe lighter tones, greys’.
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I still don't want one as a pet.
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I bet that SOB looked just like Trump!
So in other words, they were Scottish or Irish.
The aesthetics and functionality of that thing are so poor that it gives credence to the Book Of Enoch people.
He sounds like he looked like Prince Harry
Must have been Trumpzilla!
It died of a Cheetos allergy?
It’s so fuzzy!!!
Well, Trump Rex does have a ring to it!..............
Well, Trump Rex does have a ring to it!..............
It’s also been discovered that velociraptors didn’t really know how to open doors.
“He sounds like he looked like Prince Harry.”
GMTA! Exactly what I was going to post.
I wish they’d have known how to climb up into a drop ceiling, that screechy blonde was just intolerable.
Bkmk
Tyrumpasaurus Rex! RATs fear it!
Kathy Griffin.
I always said my cockatiel was descended from Tyrannosaurus Rex or maybe velociraptor. With time, the believed appearance of rex continues to evolve toward looking more like my bird.
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