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I'm so tired of people giving terror birds feathers! There's no evidence they did! We should draw them with scales until it's proven they had feathers, because scales are clearly the default for anything that doesn't have feathers! There's no evidence they had eyeballs instead of empty sockets either, but I draw them with eyeballs because I enjoy contradicting myself! Besides, they lived on tropical grasslands and were so big they'd clearly overheat if they had feathers! Okay, I acknowledge the fact that every member of the oviraptorosaur + paravian clade that we have integument of has feathers, but I think terror birds deviated from their ancestors for... no good reason, really! They just look silly with them; they look so much scarier being scaly and reptilian, and the appearance of living things is clearly dictated by how scary or mean I think they look! Furthermore, all feathered dinos lived in Asia, and terror birds were from the Americas, so that means they didn't have feathers! Right?

If you check out the Wikipedia talk pages of any well-known deinonychosaur (Velociraptor, Deinonychus, and Utahraptor for most part), you'll invariably find some variation of the above. And most of them aren't even that intelligent.
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~RajaHarimau98 Mar 15, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I could not favorite this enough. Whenever someone says something like, "Give me proof Utahraptor had feathers", I just say "Give me proof Smilodon had fur and terror birds had feathers". :)

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~Albertonykus Mar 15, 2012
Exactly. XD Thanks!
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~RajaHarimau98 Mar 15, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yup, no problem! :)

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~SpongeBobFossilPants Mar 10, 2012
I've seen a similar rant on the Utahraptor talk page (not the others, though).

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~Albertonykus Mar 10, 2012
Those from past years have probably been archived.
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~Coelophysis Feb 13, 2012
LOL, I encounter so many people who claim that fossil discoveries of feathered dinosaurs have somehow ruined their childhood! I don't want to see a featherless raptor again for the same reason that I don't want to see a tail-dragging T.rex.
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~TyrannosaurusPrime Aug 19, 2011
:rofl::lmao::XD::lol::iconironhideawesomeplz:

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Torosaurus and Nedoceratops ARE NOT Triceratops, Dracorex and Stygimoloch ARE NOT Pachycephalosaurus!

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~Tomozaurus Jul 9, 2011  Student General Artist
Love how almost every comment on this THINKS YOU ARE BEING SERIOUS. lol

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~Albertonykus Jul 9, 2011
I know, right? I didn't anticipate that at all when I posted this.
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~EliteDinosaur Apr 19, 2011
If you find a bird without feathers, let me know, until then, i like my terror birds with feathers.
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