Tales From The Dork Side

If you're having trouble telling what the difference is between the two dinos, the joke is that there is virtually no difference, save for a feature we have no actual physical evidence for (unless there's been a big update I missed, we don't have any conclusive evidence of what large therapods were colored like).

This does not stop every paleoart subreddit or twitter/bsky artist following from being full of the most utterly miserable bickering pedants having wildly disproportionate reactions to minor and purely theoretical... I can't even call them arguments. Just different ideas.

Overall: The vibes are immaculate, but Probably Not

We have some fossil evidence to suggest juvenile Rexes were downy, but adults were almost certainly not

Especially not like this, because sparrows are floofy because they're little animals that live in temperate climates with cold winters, and T-Rex was a Very Large Animal living in tropical climates. It did not need the insulation.

That's a pose a T-rex could strike but not it's natural habit. The artist has also fudged the proportions a bit, in a very plausible way so always double-check your measurements and reference sources to make sure you're not making stuff up

T-rex would have had no need for flight feathers like depicted on the wings and tail, and it comes from earlier in the evolutionary tree than flighted dinosaurs so it wouldn't have them vestigially either

HOWEVER:

It's extremely valid and compelling to consider how feathering might have radically changed the silhouettes, especially in terms of camouflage and insulation for some of the smaller and midsize dinosaurs

Patterning and cryptic camouflage are also very valid interpretations, even on a giant non-aquatic predator, because a ton of animals are paler on the underside

The little bright cheek puffs are something that might have shown up as skin pigmentation, esp given that Rexes had extremely good vision and probably fairly sociable so communicative coloration would be a very valid and reasonable choice

My hands:

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When u discover ur employee writes self insert fanfic about one of your old coworkers

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

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And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

I was so confused for a second

Hello everyone! We are extremely excited to announce that we are back with SkyStar Week 2026! This year's dates will be between Monday 29th June to Sunday 5th July! We invite as many of you to participate and have fun devising whatever you can for these two starstruck planes!

Our list of prompts for this year is:

Day 1 (Monday 29th) - Mirror / Mask  Day 2 (Tuesday 30th) - Experiment / Misunderstanding Day 3 (Wednesday 1st) - Gift / Weapon Day 4 (Thursday 2nd) - Jealous / Trapped Day 5 (Friday 3rd) - Royalty / Imposter Day 6 (Saturday 4th) - Fireworks / Compass Day 7 (Sunday 5th) - Date / Apology

However, they are not strict guidelines and you don't have to follow them. These are simply there to give people ideas for fanworks! At the end of the day the main rule is to have fun! We'll be keeping you notified with more updates as we get closer to the date! For now happy SkyStar!