>>92409906I'm going to ignore the smelly scalefag comment. But I do have to ask Where? Besides Juravenator (dubious) and the ornithopods (we've still no idea what is happening here...)
Do you mean the scales on the feet? I'm more than happy to have a discussion dude, but I would like you to point out specific examples. What specimen preserves scales on the bottom side of the tail, and feathers on the top?
Regardless, we do have scales from the feet (Tarbosaurus) which doesn't tell us much for the sake of this discussion. The neck impression from Tarbosaurus is actually glabrous (smooth), so that's a point for you, though I can only say this third hand as I do not have access to the paper (using pic-related as reference). Finally, we've got skin impressions from the side (not really the underside, but the lateral portion) of Wyrex's tail. So, upon review, my two scenarios are a bit premature... though I remain skeptical of a mish-mash of feathers/proto-feathers and scales.
And I remember you from /an/ as well. I don't hold any ill will, but yeah, that's probably me you're thinking of. You mentioned there were places on Yutyrannus that didn't preserve feathers and so inferred that there must have been scales in those places. Which is reasonable, but its not hard evidence. But that's about where our discussion ended. You huffed and puffed and then the thread died.
I really don't have personal preference whether Rex and its kin were feathered - I quite like both Saurian designs, as well as Alexander Lovegrove's artwork. Whatever the animals looked like I'm sure it was natural and cool (an eight ton biped with a head that size and shape is going to be badass regardless of body-covering).
Listen, I even illustrated two different scenarios for tyrannosaur integument - one feathered mish mash version (the Saurian model) or the purely scaled version. Again, the animal was what it was. I'm just picking at the data we have.
