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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They are PC paleos who are trying to feminize the one-time king of the jungle. I’m not buying it.
Liberals trying to make T-Rex a wuss.
THAT is funny!
Pardon me but I think they’re all full of baloney. When I look around the world today predators have evolved to blend in with their environments. I find it hard to believe that T. Rex hunted in a field of granite boulders. A prey animal would see a moving grey T. Rex in the blink of an eye in front of a forest background. More likely, they were a green color, perhaps with stripes.
Thanks mairdie.
New bristly version looks a heck of a lot scarier than the lizard version.
We collect toy dinos and they have gotten very realistic lately, with the colors, the feathers (when appropriate), all the new discoveries.
http://www.dinosaurfarm.com/dinosaur-collectibles/
He reminds me of Ollie, of the Kukla, Fran and Ollie Show.
Remember the show vividly.
Well I do!
And I want him with blonde hair (tinge of orange) -
And I'm gonna love him, hug him, pet him and squeeze him and call him..."The Donald".
Never say never...
This one seems, ah, a little, well...
Light in its loafers?
;-)
The view from new deck?
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