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Dinosaurs

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The Color of Trex

Terex probably did have feathers. Nobody has ever found a fossil skeleton of a terex covered in feathers. Terex fossils are found in environments that don't normally preserve the pits like feathers. It was only about 25 years ago that these were found. People are finding new ones all the time. What we see is that it's not just a few dinosaurs that have feathers. It's basically every meat eating dinosaur, from the small ones you can fit in your hands, up to things that were almost the size of a bus. And some of the plant eating dinosaurs had feathers too.

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