Feathers aren’t scary, Mr Spielberg?

36 thoughts on “Feathers aren’t scary, Mr Spielberg?”

1. Someone needs a barber.

2. http://www.ebay.com/itm/192133028531

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   1. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a80AAOSwzgBYzKuH/s-l1600.jpg

      1. It claims it’s full scale too.

         1. Yeah, this species was really not that big. Others were. I think the Utahraptor was pretty much a nightmare.

            1. Dakotaraptor is bigger, iirc. Here between an Archeoraptor and a T. rex.

               http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rjpalmer_dakotaraptor_jane_001_by_arvalis-d9ev6ij.jpg

               (R. J. Palmer)

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            2. I love that cowboy in the picture. He’s like…”Bring ’em on!”.

            3. Typical USian! He’s ready to reach for his gun! 🙂

            4. I think it’s supposed to be the paleontologist Bob Bakker, who often wears a cowboy hat and vest, and was parodied in the Lost World as “Robert Burke”.

            5. I was surprised to lean Bakker was seriously religious.

      2. Aw, it’s adorable! I want one!

         What? Raptors are freaking cute.

         1. Put your bid in, then!

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            1. Don’t tempt me. My hubby would kill me but it’s just so cuuuuuute…!

3. Looks more thilly than thcary to me, fluffy pantaloons and all…

   1. Thoo cute! (At several arms length.)

   2. Wait till you here it crow in the morning…

4. That is pretty impressive.
   We had friends who would keep bantam chickens. The tiny rooster would charge after the kids pretty regularly, and yes, they ran. I don’t blame them.

5. Wow, that is one big chicken!

6. Why did the Brahma chicken cross the road? He didn’t, he just walked down the road and straddled both sides.

7. Had to go look that up. Wonder if KFC or Popeyes is looking at this?

   1. It might not mature as quickly as modern breeds do, making it more vulnerable to loss by retrovirus induced cancers and have a gamey flavor.

8. That’s an impressive chicken. I read in a book “Great Mambo Chicken” about NASA experimentally rearing chickens under 2 gravities to see how they’d get on.

   They adapted to the increased gravity, ripped like bodybuilders, and when they were released into normal Earth conditions they became…Great Mambo Chickens! There weren’t any pictures, sadly, but I’d like to think they looked like these ones, and were ready to kick ars*.

9. Holy shit ! I had no idea there was a breed THAT size.

10. Some creationists claim that birds cannot have evolved from dinosaurs because scales and feathers are so different. Well, most chickens have legs covered with scales…

    1. So did T. rex

       https://luisvrey.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc01658.jpg

       (Luis V. Rey)

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11. To be honest ,when the chicken started to climb out i thought it was a guy dressed up as a chicken .

12. Pay, I say pay attention, son–it looks just like Foghorn J. Leghorn!

    1. Funny.

       1. Me, too; immediately thought of Foghorn Leghorn, I say Son!

    2. Ha ha. Thanks. Foggy was a favorite when I was a kid. I still say “That boy, I say, that boy is as sharp as a bowling ball.”

13. That’s a big Chicken, go down with a few Chips, that’s English Chips,not American which we refer to correctly I might add as Crisps.

14. Feathers aren’t scary. Things *with* feathers can be 😉

    1. Yeah, feathers are cool. Things that have feathers can seriously mess you up, though.

       1. What’s the difference between kinky and perverted ?
          Kinky is when you stroke someone with a feather ,perverted is when you use the whole chicken .

15. Before Robt. T Bakker we were all taught that dinos were cold blooded reptiles that lived in tropical swamps who died off because the Earth got too cold.
    Then this came along;
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinosaur_Heresies

    I suspect Spielberg wrote the screenplay while the idea of feathered dinos was yet somewhat controversial. I still hear people who should know better refer to the Mesozoic as “the age of reptiles”….and even today you come upon children’s toys and stories that depict them as big lizards. How much longer before Barney sprouts plumage?

    1. I took a general biology course in high school a few years after JP. It was still an open question then, and a few years later in general bio in CEGEP. It isn’t, apparently, now: the Canadian Museum of Nature, for example, has a video about how birds are dinosaurs. Don’t know if it has made the textbooks for kids yet (or college/university) though.

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