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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Whenever I chat up Neanderthal chicks,
my Cro-Magnon gonads keep stalling.
It's not a bad lick how her brow is too thick,
but that New Jersey accent's appalling.
Trumpasaurus Rex. It didn’t roar, it tweeted.
Cuter maybe, but I’m still glad there are none of those in the woods I hike in...
He was transgendered too!
IOW, he’s another #BLM.
Leftist click bait. The folks that invented this version of T-Rex are in the same game as the climate change folks.
It’s really up to ones imagination until actual proof is found in a living specimen.
So what do we want to see, the roaring monster of Jurassic Park movies? (ie masculine)
Or some chickenfied homo looking freak with feathers that chirps? (a femmed version)
They have to try to wussify everything, don’t they?
No one knows what T Rex really looked like, how it lived, or what sounds they made - if any. And no one ever will.
It’s very cool looking. Much better than the dull green lizard like creature of popular culture.
That’s good poetry!
Thanks, luv. There’s more at my profile page, if you’d like.
>>And no one ever will.
Until the day some idiot actually clones one.
One paleontologist said that T Rex was a ten ton road runner from hell.
“...it is revealed the animal may have had more in common with birds than reptiles...”
It’s nearest living ancestor is the wood thrush...
I figured out why T. Rex was so mean and bad. His arms were too short to scratch his balls when he woke up in the A.M.
T-Rex was a ginger? Who knew!
CC
They believe that the T-REX suffered from Toxic Masculinity!
lol! You beat me to it.
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