[quote=New Scientist]
Children's dinosaur books will have to be rewritten – or at least redrawn – yet again. It turns out that the flying reptiles that dominated the skies during the age of the dinosaurs were fuzzballs.
A few years ago Chinese palaeontologists rewrote prehistory when they discovered that many dinosaurs were feathered. Now a pterosaur from the Inner Mongolia region of China has been found to be covered in hair-like fibres.
"It would have looked not like a mammal's fur but more like down on a chick," says Alex Kellner of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who announced the discovery at the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Bristol, UK.
The hairy pterosaur was discovered in the Daohugou deposits, which are renowned for exquisitely preserved fossil animals, often with skin and other soft tissue intact. This allowed Kellner and his colleagues at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, to take the most detailed ever look at the soft tissue of a pterosaur's wing.
The team doesn't yet know whether the fibres were more like mammalian hair or the "protofeathers" seen on some dinosaurs, nor what they were made of, but Kellner describes them as "thick and bushy". The fibres appear to be thicker and bushier closer to the body of the pterosaur, dubbed Jeholopterus ningchengensis, and less so on the wing extremities.
Similar fibres have been seen on an as-yet unnamed species of pterosaur from Brazil, Kellner says. And in 1971, a Soviet palaeontologist, Aleksandr Sharov, said he had seen hairs on a specimen on the pterosaur Psordes pilosus, but this was widely dismissed. Kellner told New Scientist that he thinks that most flying reptiles were probably fuzzy.[/quote]
[url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17859-fabulous-furry-pterosaur-unearthed-in-china.html]Link[/url] to article.
This is clearly amazing. Another partially persevered dinosaur was found, and rewrote what we knew about dinosaurs, again.
:science:
Or it could just be a lie to make us think China is awesome?
[QUOTE=radioactive;17497990]Or it could just be a lie to make us think China is awesome?[/QUOTE]
:rolleyes:
I guess that kind of pushes further into the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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Also, I came in here expecting something about a Gay Chinese Furry.
I am not disappoint.
Interesting.
[QUOTE=Epidemick;17498029]:rolleyes:
I guess that kind of pushes further into the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
[editline]06:39PM[/editline]
Also, I came in here expecting something about a Gay Chinese Furry.
I am not disappoint.[/QUOTE]
Oh god not this bandwagon.
So the T-rex is closely related to the chicken also [img]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/unpleasantrobot/TRexJet.jpg[/img] Somehow relavent
[QUOTE=radioactive;17497990]Or it could just be a lie to make us think China is awesome?[/QUOTE]
oh god oh god parize usa usa usa
savior of universe fuck ya
ya
ayayayayay
[QUOTE=Swebonny;17498099]oh god oh god parize usa usa usa
savior of universe fuck ya
ya
ayayayayay[/QUOTE]
Funfact: I'm English.
fuck :(
Thous darn commies!
Haha, the T-rex was a dick so he got reincarnated as chickens, a flightless poultry.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;17498298]Haha, the T-rex was a dick so he got reincarnated as chickens, a flightless poultry.[/QUOTE]
T-rexeseseseses where pussies.
This is the rare Chinese Rpterosaur, now I'm gonna stick me thumb up it's arse.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;17498309]T-rexeseseseses where pussies.[/QUOTE]
you where pussies, t-rexes are awesome :C
No pics on article... Must be fake.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;17498099]oh god oh god parize usa usa usa
savior of universe fuck ya
ya
ayayayayay[/QUOTE]
hilarious post man, great story behind it
typical that you felt the need to add 'Furry' into the OP
[QUOTE=GeeBee;17502058]typical that you felt the need to add 'Furry' into the OP[/QUOTE]
Did you even read the title of the news article? He just copied the news articles title and made it the thread title.
Damnit all of my books are wrong now
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DOES iT LOOK LIKE MY AVATAR HAS HAIR?!?!
[QUOTE=Deadoon v.2;17502072]Did you even read the title of the news article? He just copied the news articles title and made it the thread title.[/QUOTE]
he is clearly the author of the article
So, one friday from now I should see this depravity in animated form on /b/?
[QUOTE=Dr.C;17502165]DOES iT LOOK LIKE MY AVATAR HAS HAIR?!?![/QUOTE]
[b]Flying[/b] reptiles, man. Furry Pterodactyls.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;17498309]T-rexeseseseses where pussies.[/QUOTE]
With itty bitty arms.
And Spinosauruses kick their asses according to Jurassic Park.
The furry forum is going to be all over this...
It's to test our faith.
dinosaurs are cool
Oh my, what a [i]fabulous[/i] discovery!
[QUOTE=Negrul1;17513672]Oh my, what a [i]fabulous[/i] discovery![/QUOTE]
:rimshot:
[QUOTE=Swebonny;17498099]oh god oh god parize usa usa usa
savior of universe fuck ya
ya
ayayayayay[/QUOTE]
You're crazy?
[I]You're crazy!?[/I]
[I][B]I'M THE CRAZY ONE!!![/B][/I]
Wait, what? Most of the pterodonts in the books I own, have a layer of fur.
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