Velociraptor Shocker!

[TadPortly]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7004727.stm

[PeteMurray]

It's very likely that quite a few therapod dinosaurs had feathers, including Tyrannosaurids. There's good converging anatomical evidence from a variety of sources. This is another nail in the coffin.

[dinohunterpoa]

This book gives a very good portrait on the life of the Raptors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Red

[Agis]

I have seen life size modles of feathered dinosaurs in London and San Diege natural science museums.
It is very strange to look at feathered dinosaurs. We are so used to the Jurrasic Park image, that these feathered dino just look silly and less dangerous.

[Westfalia Chris]

You don´t say!

Really. I´ve grown up with Dinosaur books done in the "Bakkerist" era, so considering dinosaurs being endothermous was always very acceptable, but that feather thing is just a bit too strange, although perfectly sensible.

I like my dinosaurs to be big, bad scaly critters, though.

[PeteMurray]

The strangest reconstruction I ever saw was someone who argued (insensibly, I thought) that Ceratopsians (think Triceratops) had no cheeks. The reconstruction was very cool looking (the artist also gave the Trike a cats-like pupil for the eye) but no cheeks? At all? On a herbivore? I mean, really now.

(Edit: Oh look, Google found it! Sort of.

Fun fact: The jaw muscles of Ceratopsians anchor to the top of the frill. Biomechanical reconstructions indicate they would have had HUUUUUUGE compression in their bite. Like, bite through trees kind of bite. Plus their teeth are sharpish, meaning their whole jaw worked like a Hearst Tool or the Jaws of Life or a really big pruning shear. I always thought that was cool.

But were were talking about Coelurosaurs.