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Yes some dinosaurs did have feathers. In fact the picture you see here is velociraptor. Unlike Jurassic park movies this one looks more accurate. Maybe we will talk about this today and how dinosaurs did in fact have feathers. Stick around.

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On today's topic I was thinking to talk about how earth got her continents and what they looked like before they split up. To understand this event we must go back around 330 million years ago when earth started forming its first lands. It was due to the fact that earth was different back then. Mainly saying there was nothing but oceans. Then something started to change. From the deepest parts of the ocean started rising hot, massive and dangerous volcanoes filled with hot and melting lava. The climate was hot, almost oven like and so when lava mixed with water the first lands begin to form. From early earth moments ocean life was first. Then land begin to form. We had typical continents:

Africa

Eurasia

North America

South America

India

Australia

Antarctica

It looked like this:

As you can see all the continents were stuck together forming Pangea. The pangea was surrounded by Panthalassa. Panthalassa was huge ocean taking almost all earth water source but despite huge water source on earth during that time ocean turned out to be much safer than land. You see during Lopingian era mother nature decided to make some pretty gruesome and deadly predators like gorgonopsians know as earliest Sabertooh animal. Reaching to almost 3 feet long their long canines could tear through flesh like a knife.

While creatures like this were walking on land it was more calm in the ocean. With most dangerous sea monsters dead leaving us with small sharks and small octopus. It's important to mention that when we think about prehistoric fish we would go to say most obvious like sawshark (Helicoprion) or megalodon but don't worry. Those scary looking fish were dead by Lopingian era but we will go back to those creatures in later topics. Going back to our land thank god we didn't exist during that time. Not only because of the predators but because most of the land was either like desert and first trees were just forming. The land was getting more green and beautiful but still something was missing to come to existence. Something like perhaps not constantly changing climate or no predators who would kill us on spot. Either way it was too early for humans to become a thing. Moving on yes Lopingian era was in fact possibly the most brutal time on earth. Some people might say it was almost alien like

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Probably the funniest thing you will see today is Sacabambaspis fish.

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4,543E9 us actual age of earth. Wow. Just wow. Take a picture it will last longer.

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So the thing about dinosaurs we see now in movies or pictures is that they are not very accurate and I'm not talking about the fact that some dinosaurs are smaller or bigger than their actual size. I'm talking about the fact that they are missing something important. Take a look at their bone structure and skin. You can see that there's not exactly a place for muscles or fat tissue. Usually those dinosaurs we see are skinny looking like lizards but in reality if you add more to them they look different. This is called shrink wrapping effect. It's when skin is tightly pulled across the bone structure and well while yes it makes things easier since you can only work with bones when it comes to dinosaurs we should at least try to improve their looks. Adding muscles to their body and fat tissue world make them bit more chunky and accurate due to the fact that earth at the time had many different temperatures and climate was constantly changing. So going with this yes dinosaurs should look more like today animals but it's hard to actually make something when you only have bones and you can find many different animals drawn with shrink wrapping effect. It's weird and perhaps creepy but it shows that if we didn't know what today animals look like we might have made them look like their bones go making them look almost alien like.

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Hello my fellow prehistoric nerds. Please join me in my time travel journey and let's both learn about prehistoric life. We will be exploring Great Dying period, Lopingian, dinosaurs, early earth oceans, Pangea and many more. I personally love dinosaurs and prehistoric life and I can't keep all those wonderful information to myself. Of course some stuff might seem more scary than others that's why I ask for respectful comments and questions.

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