The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum

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• keeda5 hours ago
  Huh, my first thought was, the Predator taking on dinosaurs would be a pretty cool movie: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svpow.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2026&#x2F;05&#x2F;bizarre-headgear-7-ceratopsian-row.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svpow.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2026&#x2F;05&#x2F;bizarre-headgea...</a>
  • dylan6045 hours ago
    I get Xenomorph queen look from the first image
• xvedejas6 hours ago
  I thought we were moving toward depicting dinosaurs as having feathers? Or is there just too little evidence around what exactly that would look like to add it to visualizations?
  • syarb4 hours ago
    To be fair, this is in Oklahoma so we&#x27;re lucky they&#x27;re depicting dinosaurs as real at all.<p>Just kidding. This museum is actually awesome. The staff was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly when I visited <i>years</i> ago (I went to college nearby).<p>If I remember correctly, one of the curators mentioned adding feathers to some of their more permanent exhibits when I was there. Maybe they are still working on expanding that and&#x2F;or getting everyone on board? I&#x27;d love to hear their actual reasoning! I gotta go back and pester them about feathers.
  • teruakohatu2 hours ago
    &quot;billed dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs and armoured dinosaurs did not have feathers because we have lots of skin impressions of these animals that clearly show they had scaly coverings&quot; [1]<p>There is no evidence for example that protoceratops, whose skulls are pictured in the article, had feathers.<p>Non-avian theropods had feathers, but even then were not necessarily covered with them, it could be a few feathers under the arms. We are talking about species over a 200 million year time period.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;march&#x2F;the-first-dinosaurs-probably-didn-t-have-feathers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;march&#x2F;the-first-din...</a>
• giarc6 hours ago
  When I read the title, I thought this was &quot;headgear&quot; as in dental appliances and tools. And to be honest, that would also be a cool exhibit.
• destinator6 hours ago
  Truly a head of its time. Badum bum.