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[–] 51 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It was recently proven that at least some dinosaurs had feathers after a piece of amber was found with a perfectly preserved dinosaur tail

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I scanned and it said 2016? I thought we knew this for longer.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Pretty sure we can, since there's no keytars in the fossil record

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (14 children)

    Yes we can. Hair is a mammal thing.

    Also, no hairy birds.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    do we know that ONLY mammals had hair for the entirety of evolution? /genuine

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    There is a hairy frog. But he’s something of a psycho aberration.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Well you can't just drop a bomb like that without backing it up

    What the actual fuck is this misbegotten creature? It pumps blood into its hair, and it can break its toes to make Wolverine claws

    Nature is metal

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think early feathers were hairlike but obviously in the sense of fur that covered the body. There were a lot of evolutionary factors that led to out hair that's (1.) only on the head and (2.) grows far longer than necessary.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    True. My point still stands that to get to the point in the post requires a lot of evolutionary oddities that only happened in humans. So the steps are more or less the same: developing fur, reducing it everywhere except for the head and elongating it on the head. Dinosaurs might have had furlike feathers but that's where it ends.

    There is also the argument to make that once early humans developed the ability to cut hair, there was no evolutionary pressure on restricting the length. So it might have started as a sign of health and strength so it grew longer to the point that they decided to cut it and from there it went off uncontrolled.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But what if a group of dinosaurs independently evolved hair or something highly convergent to it, but then that lineage left no descendants among modern birds, leaving none of them with the trait?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    That style went out of fasion eons ago

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    Maybe she's born with it

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    She needs the fake eyelashes which for them may have been real

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That has to be Haalands ancestor

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