u/Beneficial-Table2861

I've never seen this theory anywhere else and I made it up but that feathered theropods (or at least some) had their face completly covered in feathered, the reason we reconstruct them with their face/snout bald is because birds have beaks and some of them have the area near the nostrils bald, but most dinosaurs don't have beaks, and when you think of the closest analog for feathers today it's hair and mammals have their face aside from the area near the nostrils covered in hair. So my therory is that most non avian dinosaurs that had featheres (dromeausaurs for example) had their faces covered, and just like birds it would be at different levels, from even the nostrils being covered like song birds to the whole face and neck being bald like marabou storks. this theroy also aplies to stuff like pterosaurs and other archosaurs that had picnofibers. And again has there been discussion about this before or a scientific paper or even paleoart?

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u/Beneficial-Table2861 — 11 days ago