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[–] Slovene 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Feathers and colours? Dinosaurs must have looked absolutely FABULOUS!

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you say it as a joke, but look at the non extinct dinosaurs we have today,

most birds are indeed much more flamboyant than Jurassic park dinosaurs

[–] Slovene 14 points 1 week ago
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Something that stands out to me is how the most colorful creatures are good at evasion. Birds and bugs flying or reef creatures have hiding holes. Other colorful life tends to be toxic.

For this reason I doubt the huge species had color that stood out from their environment.