Velociraptor Had Feathers

Spy der Mann writes "A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History, appears in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science."

Wow, what a dinosaur!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's reputation is about to be tarred and feathered once this news gets out...

Artist's rendering:

[flimflam]

http://www.breatheinfo.com/images/big_bird.jpg [breatheinfo.com]

new reason for extinctin of the dino's

[rucs_hack]

All those little 'created' humans walking around at the same time must have killed them all to make headdresses.

It all makes sense! How could I have been so foolish before!

Hang on, did I take my tablet today?

They also had tar pits back then...

[mrRay720]

Constantly being tarred and feathered, the poor velociraptors were often the butt of the larger dinosaurs' jokes.

Nowhere is there proof that the 'raptors actually grew those feathers out of their skin!

Queue XKCD comic

[Xyde]

I'm sure XKCD will have something to say about this. We welcome our Mwahahah flying, feathered velociraptor overlords! ..first post!

Han shot first...

[Progman3K]

Does that mean Spielberg is going to retouch Jurassic Park to add feathers?

Re:Queue XKCD comic

[Quinnie]

No one tell Randall Munroe about this, or he'll start running away from birds.

Re:Han shot first...

[suv4x4]

Does that mean Spielberg is going to retouch Jurassic Park to add feathers?

No, but the Jurassic Park 4 seems to get it right [img171.exs.cx].

Separated at birth...

[Kildjean]

Barrens Velociraptors, and most of them found through Azeroth have feathers too. Are these types related or they are distant cousins.

Just as well the feathers were left off

[jollyreaper]

I just can't take a giant feathered dinosaur seriously, even if it is chewing my face off. Just looks like a big fruity lizard with a feather boa, probably going to catch a Broadway show when it's done devouring me.

Jeff Goldblum was right!

[Big Nothing]

This will teach all of Jeff Goldblum's critics a well deserved lesson!

Re:Not Velociraptor at all.

[caluml]

What was depicted in the movie Jurassic Park was clearly Deinonychus.

I think you'll find it was just computer generated.

Now we have to bring them back

[DanielMarkham]

What with America being so overweight and all, now we have to bring back the 'raptors.

I can see it now. A car pulls up to the drive-through. "I'd like the 48-pound chicken bucket, 4 pounds of mashed potatoes, and a 10-pound sack of beaks and feet"

"Would you like that Crunchy Jurassic, or Original Recipe?"

Re:Now we have to bring them back

[z0idberg]

and a diet Coke.

Re:Is this news?

[GreyPoopon]

There have been clues before, but the evidence wasn't good enough until now.

My theory is that the 'raptor wasn't a dinosaur at all. It was just a really big ostrich. OK... a really big, really smart ostrich.

Re:new reason for extinctin of the dino's

[Anonymous Coward]

All those little 'created' humans walking around at the same time must have killed them all to make headdresses.

No, no... dinosaurs became extinct because they tasted terrible with the Colonel's secret herbs-and-spices recipe. Go back and read Darwin's famous treatise, Oregano on Species , where he proposes the theory that all food evolved from lesser forms of food -- the survival of the tastiest. After all, you don't see chickens, sheep, or beef cattle threatened with extinction, do you?

Misleading picture

[merikari]

Clearly this is not a realistic portrayal of the dinosaur. It doesn't have a saddle, and Adam is missing from the picture too.

Re:Queue XKCD comic

[Anonymous Coward]

It depends on what the intent of the post was. If it was to notify or remind XKCD to do a comic on the topic, it would be "cue". If it was to go to XKCD after reading slashdot, then it would be "queue".

Who Says Wikipedia Doesn't Have a Sense of Humor?

[riffzifnab]

Deinonychus Scale Drawing [wikipedia.org]

Look out dude, its going for your leg!

Re:Missing Link?

[Anonymous Coward]

Feathers/scales/hair/fingernails are all made of keratin, not chitin. Feathers are a form of scales??? Why the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached!

I for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

welcome our feathered velociraptor overlords!

Re:Taste

[TheThiefMaster]

The chicken, obviously.

Wait...

Re:Is this news?

[phoenixwade]

In Soviet Russia, Ostrich is really dumb dinosaur! Taste like chicken!

"In Soviet Russia, The Chickens eat YOU!"

There, fixed that for you....

Re:Misleading picture

[Chris Mattern]

Quite right. Here [cocolog-nifty.com] is a much better picture.

Chris Mattern

Re:Missing Link?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's how I broke my last fax machine, you insensitive clod!

Re:Is this news?

[Digital Vomit]

I used to bullseye those things in my T-16 back home.

Mega-Ultra Chicken

[zymurgyboy]

TFA:

"It's sort of as if you scaled up a chicken and then gave it really nasty teeth and big claws on its feet," he said.

Mega Ultra Chicken? No, shhhh, he is legend!

BillyWitchDoctor.com deals mostly in chicken.

Re:Is this news?

[commodoresloat]

Picture of one of these little bastards attacking:... Wow.

Yeah pretty insane eh? The bird he's attacking is pretty wild too.

Slightly gay

[merikari]

This just in. Velociraptors were a bit more gay than previously thought.