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Fossil "Mummy" gives glimpse of dinosaur skin.
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I've never taken any visual representation of dinosaurs as factual. From their fossilized bones we can get a pretty good idea of their body shape. Which I've always enjoyed learning. But we don't know the color of their skin, it's texture, it's thickness or anything like that. I understand all of that, and so does the scientific community. So I really appreciate it when we get even the smallest window that fills in the gaps of those unknowns. Science is a wonderful tool towards that end.
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Then maybe you should keep quiet on something like that in the future. Would do you a world of wonders.
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Joke!!! How dare you!!! Thats a very famous relative of mine!!!
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Ophiolite
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I respectfully disagree with @BCP1928 . You are absolutely wrong. You persist in conflating random illustrations, from undefined sources with the definitive, peer reviewed, evidence based descriptions made by the expert scientists. These are not the same things. The illustrations, in most cases, have as much relationship to the research conclusions as your posts do to rational, informed conversation. i.e. precious little.
The hulllabaloo is about your intransigent, decade spanning impersonation of a fool which, while worthy of an Oscar, is not worthy of respect.
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Whose respect?
I ask this because you joined two years after I, but I have five times more likes than you.
I'm not saying this to toot my own horn, but to make a point.
Perhaps not your brand of respect, but whatever.
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Hey, we're on a roll!
But lest you think it's all me, qv please:
Respect to AV1611VET
And others deserve respect just as well, but don't get it.
I'm sure we're not going to lose any sleep over it though.
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Hey, we're on a roll!
But lest you think it's all me, qv please:
Respect to AV1611VET
And others deserve respect just as well, but don't get it.
I'm sure we're not going to lose any sleep over it though.
That thread is not saying what you think it's saying at all.
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Change your jokes, or just stop them altogether. You're not a corgi.
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Ophiolite
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Oh dear. You made, as of this writing, 3,851,272 posts and received 52,418 reactions. So what?
I made 9,134 posts and received 10,039 reactions.
Now many of your posts, apparently were some kind of junk "counting" posts. Most of the rest are rarely more than four or five sentences long. Nevetheless, this means that for every 1000 posts you've made you got an average of 13.6 reactions. For every 1000 posts I made I got an average of 1003 reactions. So what? Irrelevant, other than as an example of how to distort facts with statistics. (I may use these in the next data analysis course I give.)
If you follow the subsequent posts it becomes quite clear that the poster was reflecting on the lack of respect for your posting record. It's just a little sad that you did not recognise this.
/deviation
Finis.
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Hey, you’re in luck. I just read this article:
Although this Nature paper did not chemically investigate what these tissues are made of—whether mineral replacement or what remains from original biochemicals—certain observations make a strong case that these are indeed the original bone, skin, and claw tissues. For one, each tissue type shows a different color. The bone looks off-white—like old bones do. The skin looks, well, skin-tone. And UV light revealed the claws’ “keratinous sheath” as slightly lighter and more yellow than the bone.
Bone, Skin, Claw Lasted…150 Million Years?
Experts and educators have long assumed Archaeopteryx represents a transition from theropod dinosaurs to modern birds. All of this speculation depends on the fossils having been deposited many millions of years ago. But a newly described Chicago specimen—the fourteenth known Archaeopteryx—seems...www.icr.org
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Actually, in some rare cases we do know what their skin looked like, and in rarer cases the color. First is fossilized impressions of skin. That's not the skin itself, but the impression left in the material. This can include feathers, or shadings in the rock where feathers once were. Next is fossilized skin. For whatever reason, hadrosaurs come up a lot with this. Fossilized hadrosaur skin has been known for decades. In some very rare instances there are traces of pigments. In some cases, there's enough representative fossils and impressions of skin that it's known that some dinosaurs had differences in texture and likely thickness depending to where their skin was on their bodies.
Here's a photo of fossilized T-Rex skin:
https://www.science.org/content/art...in-suggest-it-was-covered-scales-not-feathers
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