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Behold the beautiful feathered tyrant.

Small reference sheet of this new dinosaur discovery of 2012.

Why is Yutyrannus sooo important?
-Because is the biggest feathered animal known.
-Because it is a Tyrannosaur, what means that other member of the group had feathers, too (T. rex included).
-Because a fluffy Tyrannosaur is awesome, and I'd like to cuddle it.

About the size comparison between both dinosaurs (yes, the sparrow is a dinosaur too), I made a sub-adult Yutyrannus, wich skull is about 80cm long, while the sparrow total length is about 16cm.
I used as reference the specimen ELDM V1001 as it was drew by *shartman ( [link] ). However, the size of that skull (63cm), the one you will see in google, belongs to a young animal, while the biggest (ZCDM V5000) has an estimate length of 90.5cm.


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:iconpronus:
It's not clear that the rest of the tyrannosaur members had feathers:

"However, naked and scaly skin impressions have been reported from late Cretaceous tyrannosaurids, with no evidence of plumage; if naked or scaly skin was the dominant epidermal trait of later genera, the extent and nature of the integumentary covering may have changed over time in response to body size, a warmer climate, or other factors." [link]
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:iconchrismasna:
well, I have to divide this in two parts:
First, 'naked skin' refers to smallpatches in certain zones (Tyrannosaurus, tip of the tail, as far as I know.)
Second, if Yutyrannus, a 8m(?) long tyrannosauroid had feathers, at least that lineage had them. And the babies, they definitely were feathered. Even if the adults were semi-bald ;)
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:iconpronus:
So cool to find out about these new discoveries along with a fantastic picture. So it sounds like full grown it is about the same size as Gigantoraptor which is also depicted as feathered.
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:iconpeccatori:
Amazing work :aww:
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~EternityVampyr Jun 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
What could be better than a feathered Tyrannosaur? :la: I read about this; it is one fantastic find :D it's amazing that one can learn so much from a few fossils!

I just love your rendition of the beautiful feathered tyrant; the detail of the feathers and the scales are just wonderful - the softness of the feathers makes it look almost friendly :meow: the Sparrow is a lovely touch and really helps show off the size comparison :D truly excellent work!
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:iconchrismasna:
Thank you for your kind words!

What could be better than a feathered Tyrannosaur?
A pack of feathered Tyrannosaurs. I'd really love to find something like that :P
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:iconeternityvampyr:
~EternityVampyr Jun 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
A pack of feathered Tyrannosaurs? Yuss, of course! :la:
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~DanDynamite May 5, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
i like ^^ looks great ;)
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~uberfrill14 Apr 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
IT'S SO FLUFFY!!!!!! *cuddles Yutyrannus*
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