These look cool!

These look cool!

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

Ultra-cool line of scientifically accurate feathered dinosaur action figures
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2016/09/28/interview-with-david-silva-creator-of-the-beasts-of-the-mesozoic-dinosaur-toy-line/

Comments

  1. Alicia Smith30 September 2016 at 08:47

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaant!

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  2. Rob Masters30 September 2016 at 09:06

    That's why I tagged you :)

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  3. John Samuel30 September 2016 at 10:24

    Very cool but noting as far as the scientifically accurate part goes... "then we laugh, because we know, you can't prove it wasn't so, oh all in a line, marching through time" etc. :)

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  4. Rob Masters30 September 2016 at 10:28

    Actually, John Samuel they've turned up quite a bit recently - turns out fine shales can preserve colour scales and feather impressions rather well!

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  5. Alicia Smith30 September 2016 at 11:40

    news.nationalgeographic.com - Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time by Feather Study might be of interest.

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  6. Stephen Gunnell30 September 2016 at 12:58

    John Samuel actually the colour is not preserved directly and it doesn't seem well explained in the article Leece references but the different colours have different shaped melanosomes and those shapes are conserved between dinosaur fossils and modern birds.
    Also in the correct rock type it is possible to see feather outlines in ultraviolet where no feathers are visible to the naked eye. This alone has vastly increased the number of dinosaurs known to have feathers.

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  7. Garry Winterton30 September 2016 at 14:43

    Yfel n¯Ã¦nig pro sundfullic fullan sê blêoum [odin] hnot wealdan and rîm

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  8. Alicia Smith30 September 2016 at 14:56

    You got a translation for that Garry Winterton ?

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  9. Garry Winterton30 September 2016 at 18:10

    something like I don't think the colours are what Odin would have chosen

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  10. Garry Winterton30 September 2016 at 18:11

    and yes I had a slow day at work

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