Hey, someone found a feathered T-Rex in China! (They make everything in China now, huh: even feathered serpents!) Or so they say… Apparently, they found “evidence” of some feathers around its neck, but how do we know that wasn’t some buzzard that was eating a dead dinosaur and died from food poisoning that dissolved its skeleton such that it looked like the dinosaur had feathers? I heard that happens all the time. Plus, there’s some Peter Cushing movie where some dinosaur-looking creatures suck the bones out of everyone, so maybe they ate the buzzards skeleton. Or maybe it was just a very flamboyant dinosaur wearing a stylish feather boa. Someone told me it’s very likely that’s what this is.
Oh, by the way, this makes me wonder about Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl: they’re the names for the feathered serpent Mesoamerican deity. I have to wonder if the natives stumbled upon the fossilized remains of a feathered T-Rex-type dinosaur, and from that developed their beliefs. Some scientists who dig stuff up and enjoy pondering about what it means apparently think a lot of monsters and creatures from ancient Greek mythology come from incorrect assessments of dinosaur and mammoth bones found sticking out of a hillside after an earthquake or something. I heard Quetzalcoatl put them there to confuse these scientists for their arrogance and their lack of faith in him, but I can’t confirm that. Some feathery, serpentine-looking guy with really sharp teeth old me that, but I didn’t get his name.
Here’s a blog post about the “beautiful feathered tyrant”:
