Comment on Giant feathered tyrannosauroids! by Albertonykus
This is my comment “I really do think that many (if not all) dinosaurs had feathers, no matter how much they were covered, their size or their taxonomic proximity to avian dinosaurs. Because once you think about it, nearly all mammals have hair (even aquatic ones and humans), so why would dinosaurs be any different?” to this upload [link] .
Part of the reason is that we can't be certain where feathers evolved at the moment, so some dinosaurs might have branched off before feathers evolved. And even if that weren't so there do appear to be some dinosaurs that at least appear to have had only scales and not feathers (such as Carnotaurus and titanosaurs). So while I'm plenty open to an early origin of feathers, I don't think it's safe to conclude all dinosaurs had them just yet, though clearly feathered groups such as coelurosaurs probably were universally or almost universally feathered as you suggest.
I do see your point and I maybe jumping the gun, but I feel its possible that my ideas are (in part) supported by a study done on Juravenator’s primitive plumage and scale dispersal [link] . I’m also open to the idea, as I said, that “many (if not all) dinosaurs had feathers”, leaving more then enough room for dinosaurs as featherless as whales are hairless.
Juravenator shows that feathers were probably less extensive earlier in their evolution, but beyond that I wouldn't infer anything more.
The point I’m trying to make (without sounding like I believe Sauropods can fly) is how Juravenator appears to had been neither fully feathered nor fully scaled. And that I have an idea, that we may find it a trend in other dinosaurs as well. Patches of “fuzz” alongside scales, osteoderms, quills etc.
Not trying to sound like a know it all by the way, just putting my ideas out their based on tidbits of information I can remember.
Not trying to sound like a know it all by the way, just putting my ideas out their based on tidbits of information I can remember.
Yes, and I also suspect that was the case for many dinosaurs as well.
Well, I’d say we can see eye to eye now 
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On another note, I’d like an opinion on this please [link] . I’m aware I likely exaggerated and speculated way to much, but I thought it turned out alright for being based on relatives to the House Sparrow and Nile Crocodile.
.On another note, I’d like an opinion on this please [link] . I’m aware I likely exaggerated and speculated way to much, but I thought it turned out alright for being based on relatives to the House Sparrow and Nile Crocodile.