Re: baby T.rex ...

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

They're believed to have been cute and fluffy because their kin were 
feathered, and the reason they needed feathers for was to keep warm.  While 
giant tyrranusaurus probably became unfeathered just like giant mammals, the 
young were probably cute fluffy chicks.

I think I saw that in Scientific American or Discover or something.

Mind you, I don't know how cute they were, but it sure beat scales!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B tH" <soylentgreenistrex@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 8:43 PM
Subject: re: baby T.rex ...


> I sure hope they weren't fluffy!
> Cute is in the eye of the beholder or the chomped-upon.
> I like my mega-tyrannosaurs pebbly-skinned.
> I want them jumping out of the egg ready for kung-fu fighting, with no 
> proto-down getting in the way.