Hell no. Dinosaurs never had feathers. Yes yes yes, you can throw all these so called 'scientific facts' at me, but nope, by childhood refuses to believe.
There's a recent, as in the last few months, issue of I believe Scientific American that I thumbed through discussing the T-Rex and long story short when it comes to feathers the biggest opinion in the paleontologist community is that they didn't have full feathers or full feathered bodies like birds but a precursor to them. Also that only late Cratacious dinosaurs had them, not Triassic or Jurassic.
I'm no paleontologist though, so I suggest reading it. It was very interesting.
There's a recent, as in the last few months, issue of I believe Scientific American that I thumbed through discussing the T-Rex and long story short when it comes to feathers the biggest opinion in the paleontologist community is that they didn't have full feathers or full feathered bodies like birds but a precursor to them. Also that only late Cratacious dinosaurs had them, not Triassic or Jurassic.
I'm no paleontologist though, so I suggest reading it. It was very interesting.
Yea, basicially a Dinosaur called Yutrannus which was older than T-Rex but part of the same family, had feathers covering its body, and like T-Rex it was a large predator. Before then, the only know T-Rex relative that was known to have feathers was really small (dilong). Yutrannus basicially proves that Large Theropod Dinosaurs could devolop feathers, as long as they where more closely related to Birds they were related to other more archaic therepods.
As for the final part really?
The Dinosaurs that contained Birds and most people consider to have feathers, the coelurosaurians, evolved in the Jurrasic, and the first known Bird, Archaeopteryx was a late Jurassic Dinosaur. What was the name of this paper?
@biteme_fanboy: Although I wasn't born in the 80's or 90's (I'm 17) I also watched the first Jurassic Park as a kid and loved it.
The silly problem is that, critics right now are bashing Jurassic World for being a 'dumb monster movie' because the dinosaurs aren't up to date with new discoveries :P
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