silverhawk:

silverhawk:

so i had a dream last night that dinosaurs would only grow feathers in the winter and then shed them all off in the summer & i was the one who discovered this bc i found piles & piles of shed off feathers like, imprinted in the soil & everything and i was like ???? holy shit what a find??

and no one believed me at first bc so many dinos didnt have any feather impressions in their fossils like it was only a few species that did but i kept insisting that almost all dinosaurs had feathers at birth like birds, but then would begin to shed them in spring, become featherless in the summer, start regrowing them in the fall, and then become Premium Fuzzy in the winter for the cold

& everyone was wondering like, just how i knew this and if this was true why didnt they find dinosaurs who’d died in the winter w/ their feathers on

and then it was discovered that a giant meteor did hit the earth & caused a MASSIVE and EXTREMELY HOT explosion to hit the earth and this explosion was SO hot it singed off the feathers of the dinosaurs close by, and then the earth got so hot periodically as a result that dinosaurs couldnt grow feathers anymore bc their bodies began rejecting them due to the heat

and idk it was like a mashup of a global warming dream & a feather dino dream and all i can say is:

we cant definitively prove that my dream was 100% wrong

oh!!!! my theory about this was called the “seasonal dinosaur feather theory” and there were tons of models of dinosaurs like t-rex, raptors, even triceratops and sauropods, who were super feathery during the winters and then there were new fossils found of feather pile imprints and everything