Dinos in the snow?

[Battle Beaver]

Cold blooded animals don't do so good in cold enviroments.

[Bad Brad]

I hope that fur armor really works because I plan to live in the snow :)

[Aphotep]

Originally posted by Tyrannogon:

I think it would be cool if they had some cold weather dinosaurs in the game, maybe something like Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Cryolophosaurus, or Yutyrannus.

While these dinos were most likely adepted to the cold compared to the ones living in tropical regions, they still hibernated during the winter, at least to my knowledge. Every animal that has adepted to being active during extended periods of freezing temperatures has extensive heat-preservation, and I'm not sure if the feathers of any dinosaur would have been up for that challange.

I almost forgot: I'd also love to have some of these in the game, we need something for the biome borders anyway.

[Nuke2099]

Originally posted by Aphotep:

Originally posted by Tyrannogon:

I think it would be cool if they had some cold weather dinosaurs in the game, maybe something like Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Cryolophosaurus, or Yutyrannus.

While these dinos were most likely adepted to the cold compared to the ones living in tropical regions, they still hibernated during the winter, at least to my knowledge. Every animal that has adepted to being active during extended periods of freezing temperatures has extensive heat-preservation, and I'm not sure if the feathers of any dinosaur would have been up for that challange.

I almost forgot: I'd also love to have some of these in the game, we need something for the biome borders anyway.

They did indeed hibernate.

[Tyrannogon]

Originally posted by Nuke2099:

Originally posted by Aphotep:

While these dinos were most likely adepted to the cold compared to the ones living in tropical regions, they still hibernated during the winter, at least to my knowledge. Every animal that has adepted to being active during extended periods of freezing temperatures has extensive heat-preservation, and I'm not sure if the feathers of any dinosaur would have been up for that challange.

I almost forgot: I'd also love to have some of these in the game, we need something for the biome borders anyway.

They did indeed hibernate.

Quite debatable acutally, though they probably didn't live in the snow all year round, though even some modern arctic animals don't always live in the snow year round.
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/09/dinosaurs-didnt-hibernate,-says-study/

But the devs have taken some creative licence with most of the animals ingame, but I would like to see some of them, as Aphotep said, as biome border animals if not in the biomes themselves. I'm hoping for Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, or Nanuqsaurus, with Tyrannosaurus being so popular the smaller tyrannosaurs don't seem to get that much attention and are usually overlooked.

[Valravn]

Originally posted by SplinterV:

Originally posted by TheDoge:

Cold blooded animals don't do so good in cold enviroments.

Stop complaining, A bronto would not go unconscious when you throw stones against it's face either.

I dunno, if you threw a boulder at it, it might go down lol.

[Baryonyx]

Originally posted by Dracul:

Originally posted by Baryonyx:

Maybe one day they introduce more heavily feathered dinos to live in the snow biome...

Microraptor and Therizinosaur , feathers for days.

I was rather thinking of feathered versions of existing dinos such as T-Rex or Raptor, so that there are feathered subspecies for snow and "naked" ones for jungle.

[Janus]

Originally posted by ~CRui$3~:

cant wait to run around naked in snow biome.

You may not like it. Already you take full and additional cold damage in that environment. Good luck.

[ramok]

The could have been warm blooded, you know there is a warm blooded fish?

[Hermes]

Originally posted by ~CRui$3~:

cant wait to run around naked in snow biome.

watch out for yellow snow

[Hermes]

oh and some reptiles have a similar physiologyto mammals or birds. like the komdo dragon and the desert iguana

[[KR-X] Tarbtano]

Most theropods we are pretty close to 100% certain were 'Warm Blooded' like modern birds. There is also good evidence a vast majority, if not all dinosaurs were the same. Even if they weren't fully warm blooded, animals who are absolutely gigantic like the in-game Bronto have so much body mass that hot and cold wouldn't phase them so much as they retain a core temperature due to gigantothermy.

[leefnmajors]

Originally posted by k1ng r4t:

Don't sweat it Doge (get it?), I'm laughing at his ignorance of the fact he thinks it's "widely accepted" all dino's were warm blooded. Not remotely true, there are THEORIES that suggest many of them were, but it's also "widely accepted" there was a mix of all 3 types as previously mentioned; besides, nothing in the world of dinos is "widely accepted" other than the fact they existed and there were A LOT of them. I'd say we've probably discovered about 1-2% of all dino breeds that actually existed...and that's not including the ocean.

Well, for starters I wasn't insulting him; just merely pointing out what the thread was about. The rest of it, I'm not gonna bother. I get tired of arguing with armchair scientists over the internet anyways.