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Tufty hair, orange eyebrows, freckles and no roar: What tyrannosaurus rex was REALLY like
Daily Mail ^ | 28 December 2017 | Susie Coen

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’.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dinosaur; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; prehistoric; tyrannosaurusrex
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To: Jane Austen

They are PC paleos who are trying to feminize the one-time king of the jungle. I’m not buying it.


41 posted on 12/28/2017 3:39:44 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: mairdie
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42 posted on 12/28/2017 3:44:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: mairdie

Liberals trying to make T-Rex a wuss.


43 posted on 12/28/2017 4:13:57 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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44 posted on 12/28/2017 4:22:14 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

THAT is funny!


45 posted on 12/28/2017 4:26:31 PM PST by mairdie
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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.


46 posted on 12/28/2017 4:50:41 PM PST by Hootowl
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; pax_et_bonum; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks mairdie.

47 posted on 12/28/2017 6:43:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: mairdie
Tyrannosaurus Rex may not have been as terrifying as its depictions on the silver screen

Isn't that the same thing people say about someone in the neighborhood who is discovered to be a serial killer, who was quiet and looked so friendly and couldn't harm a fly?
48 posted on 12/28/2017 8:20:43 PM PST by adorno
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To: huckfillary

New bristly version looks a heck of a lot scarier than the lizard version.


49 posted on 12/28/2017 8:34:40 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: mairdie

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/


50 posted on 12/28/2017 8:39:19 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: mairdie

He reminds me of Ollie, of the Kukla, Fran and Ollie Show.


51 posted on 12/28/2017 8:39:46 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Remember the show vividly.


52 posted on 12/28/2017 9:01:24 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie; Salamander; Daffynition; JoeProBono; 50mm
"I still don't want one as a pet."

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".

53 posted on 12/29/2017 12:28:12 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi
Made in China


54 posted on 12/29/2017 2:13:18 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: TTFlyer
And no one ever will.

Never say never...

55 posted on 12/29/2017 7:03:06 AM PST by null and void (It is not trends but choices that that matter most at the key moments of history)
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To: Col Freeper; WayneS
Col. Freeper: "They believe that the T-REX suffered from Toxic Masculinity!"

This one seems, ah, a little, well...


56 posted on 12/29/2017 1:25:43 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Light in its loafers?


57 posted on 12/29/2017 1:26:11 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

;-)


58 posted on 12/29/2017 1:46:24 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: shibumi


59 posted on 12/29/2017 6:35:15 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono
What am I looking at darling?

The view from new deck?


60 posted on 12/29/2017 6:38:34 PM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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