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Too many people hyper-focused on seeming like intellectuals and "epically destroying the awesome-bro dino fans perception of dinosaurs."
I still can't get over how anal some people are about feathers too.
Look at Carnotaurus. We have pretty solid evidence that the damned thing didn't have feathers anywhere due to skin impressions.
But you'll still get people who won't let go of "ALL dinosaurs had feathers" and will point to any part of the body that we don't have skin impressions for and claim that there MUST have been feathers there.
It's even more insufferable than the people who get pissy at modern reconstructions for "not being cool enough"
Like, fucking hell man, what's wrong with just loving dinosaurs, regardless of what they actually looked like? Why do so many people NEED dinosaurs to look a specific way?
Like, look at this motherfucker in pic-related. It's from a dino survival vidya.). It has feathers, but it's also a river-otter with knives for hands and does dolphin leaps out of the water in-game. Is that accurate to the real animal? No. But it's cool. Why can't that be enough?
