"T-Rex With Feathers: I Am Thinking 'Chicken' or 'Turkey'!" Topic

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Kinda reminds me of this . . .

Volunteer Boy: [on the Velociraptor skeleton on the computer screen] That's not very scary. More like a six-foot Turkey.
Dr. Alan Grant: Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this… a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say… no no. He slashes at you here… or here… or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is… you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know… try to show a little respect.
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Why would he slash you with his retractable claw on your middle toe? That doesn't seem very tactically wise.

Taxonomics also predicts that T. rex would have tasted like chicken.

A 4000 lb flesh eating turkey… and that is the JUVENILE one…

Well, I suspect we would all be having hamburgers for Thanksgiving.

UMMMM. Tastes like chicken!

Finially a turkey for Thanksgiving that would be big enough for a large family. What a drumstick he would have.

jdg

"Get the TOW son, we're hunting turkey tomorrow …"

"Get the TOW son, we're hunting turkey tomorrow …"

Depending on the scenario, you might be using a bomb lance:

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Strikes me as more of a vulture than turkey….maybe a very big turkey vulture that demands respect?

To top it off the feathers will make it harder to get a killing hit as they hide the vunerable areas and absorb some of the impact, never try turkey hunting with subsonic ammo.

Robert

I haven't gotten used to the idea that they balanced their tails and now the Eggheads want me to accept colours and feathers. Too much info, acckkkk!

TOW? Bah! Since we do the charity thing every year, we'll be resorting to an M42 "Duster" SP twin 40mm Bofors AAA system; you can feed more people that way!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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"Honeeey!! Bring up the Dragon Wagon! I just bagged my third one today, and he's a mighty BIG Tom!! Mwahahahaaa!!!"

I thought it was more like down than feathers? Awww, l'il fluffy T Rex…

Nah, M82 Barrett SA 50 Cal should be enough Gun for Dinosaur.

Even TRex. I hope. May need special ammo, Barnes Copper Solid?

I don't think it would taste like chicken. Chickens eat…whatever it is that chickens eat. T-Rex ate meat, and theories now suggest he ate dead meat, even loooonnnnggg dead meat. So, my guess is that he'd taste more like a croc, or gator, or even a wild cat, canine, or perhaps bear. Or, he might even taste more like human.

Anybody ever try one of those? (Not the human of course).

Also, I saw some research being done on Raptor claws on TV the other night. The researchers built this mechanical raptor leg with a fossil raptor claw attached, and attacked a hanging side of beef with it. They found that it didn't slash at all, but rather it hooked into the side of beef. They are now theorizing that Raptors used their claw to help grab and secure the prey, while the attacked it and tore off chunks with their pearly whites.

Though I have to admit that the specifics as to exactly what a raptor was doing to me with his claws would be somewhat secondary to the fact that he was eating my head.

This looks interesting (and look at the very bottom too):

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<<This looks interesting (and look at the very bottom too):

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Yup. Could feed alotta hungry people with one of them…time to go rev up the M42 and calibrate the gunsights…. Xmas dinner at the church again!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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("No worries, Reverend! We got the whole turkey problem solved…")

"So, my guess is that he'd taste more like a croc, or gator, or even a wild cat, canine, or perhaps bear. Or, he might even taste more like human.

Anybody ever try one of those? (Not the human of course)."

Croc actually tastes a little fishy. I'd say gator wouldn't be far off.

Also: that show sounds a bit like 'The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs'. Except I think they used a slab of pork in that.

Scavenger theories: yes. Theories. The scavenger/predator thing was bandied about long before John Horner got his hands on fancy graphics software. :P But both sides in the debate have their arguments (if you want to read stuff about running, hunting rexes, try to get a hold of 'Predatory Dinosaurs of the World', or 'The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs'. My favourite pro-hunter bits are that the tyrannosaur leg is just the wrong shape for a lumberer. It's actually pretty much a scaled-up ornithomimus leg. Also, there's the case of the partially-healed tyrannosaur bite on an edmontosaur tail. Indicating the edmonto was alive when bit. But I digress). And the emerging consensus is that t. rex indulged in a bit of both. Just like any carnivore.

With regards to _Dilong paradoxus_: it's small. Less than two metres in length – definitely small enough to warrant insulation in an endothermic animal. Unlike it's elephant+ sized relative. ;) Maybe adult t. rex could have retained display crests on it's head, neck, and/or arms (I'm pretty much in favour of downy youngsters); but to show it completely covered (and then some) in huge, fully-developed feathers is pushing it, IMO.

They may not all be the raptor dinos you are thinking of, but they are 1/40 scale:

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Knock yourself out.

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