Feathered Tyrannosaurs?

That is one mean looking chicken.

Young ones most likely had a covering of feathers, and the adults may have had a crest, but not like that.

Small ones like Guanlong and Dilong certainly had feathers. Really large ones like T-rex and Tarbosaurus probably had them as juveniles and lost them when they reached adulthood. Adult tyrannosaurs(large species) may have had a few on the arms, head, and/or tail, but not a ton. Some from the north(Gorgosaurus or Albertosaurus for example) may have had some for insulation, but it's hard to say for any real certainty.

Feathers done wrong:

Feathers done right:

Isn't this adorable?

Haha, nice. Here's a few more...

Wrong-

Right-

thanks guys! this is probably gonna come in handy for future fights...also, i decided to replace skorpiovenator with something else...this would be the third time in round 1 an abelisaur made an appearance..any good matchups for utahraptor?

The thing, with dinosaurs, and well any creature, dead or alive, Theres always a reason it would evolve souch things, Feathers, would be developed for "Pups" (That was what we were calling Tyranasaur young, correct?) To protect them from harsh elements until they were old enough to molt and their hearts could produce enough heat to sustain itslef... They Might, jsut might have in more northern regions, (IE china where all these feathered creatuers keep coming from) Developed them for mating and a little for warmth, while in warmer climates, they would change colour to show dominance... 

Bloody Paleontoligists and they're therioes... Tsk, Chickens... all im seeing...

yeah i think they call 'em pups. i always figured the young had feathers, but i guess we will never know for sure until they find large tyrannosaurs with feather impressions..

@x_paden_x

Chickens, eh? Y'know, there are other birds, right? Like, oh, I don't know, eagles, crows, cassowaries.

"Theories"? You mean those theories that brought you the warm blooded T .rex? You mean those theories that have lots and lots of evidence? Nice...

@prehistoric fighting grounds

You mean lie Yutyrannus?

i forgot about yutyrannus...i'm certain now that most, if not all tyrannosaurs had some sort of feather coverage.

 also the whole warm blooded cold blooded debate is still going on. But  some paleontologists point out dinosaurs are related to birds, birds are warm blooded, so that had to start some where on the evolutionary tree. Why not with tyrannosaurs? Also, check out my fights :) just started them, but you may like 'em

@ PFG

Can I suggest a fight?

of course! i'm  always open to suggestions

yeah! Rex do have feathers, probably used as an Attractive Feather to luring down the Girls. some scientist have studied a 68 milion years old Rex leg bone and find a funny thing about it :

Turns Out The Closest Living Relative Of T-Rex is ...........REGULAR CHICKEN.

Remember that next time you bite a Chicken Wing.

Keep in mind Yutyrannus was a primitive tyrannosaur. Tyrannosaurus, Daspletosaurus, and many of the other large tyrannosaurs were pretty advanced.

All is already said. As usually, I agree the most with RexFan and MrHappy.

@Sinornithosaurus 

Do remember, most everything we know about dinosaurs is theroies... We can't prove anything just specualte... 

However, if you give feathers to T-rex, You need to give them to trieratops, stegasaurus, brachis., Apotasaurus and so on...  It ruins the idea of everything and your universe begins to fall apart... Humans are werid indeed... 

Also, I believe, that these werent say descendants, seeing how 99.99% of dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the earth... I wouldnt say they were descendants, more so, nature decided they should evolve this way because it was most useful to them...

Eveloution, Somewhere 65 million years ago the figurative white borad was wiped clean, a few remanants left, not much to worry about though, they started over again, But this time, taking different paths.

Gaurentee some were growing feathers, But, Not all did, And yes it is pretty much all hit and miss theroies yet to be proven...

@ x_paden_x

"Do remember, most everything we know about dinosaurs is theroies... We can't prove anything just specualte... "

Theories are more than speculation. A speculaton is a hypothesis... If we find feather imprints on a fossil, that's proof that the animal was feathered.

"However, if you give feathers to T-rex, You need to give them to trieratops, stegasaurus, brachis., Apotasaurus and so on...  It ruins the idea of everything and your universe begins to fall apart... Humans are werid indeed... "

What kind of logic is that?

1: We have proof that Tyrannosaurs had feathers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutyrannus

2: Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Apatosaurus have no evidence of feathers, therefore there's no need to "give" them feathers.

3: Quills were found on Triceratops.

"Also, I believe, that these werent say descendants, seeing how 99.99% of dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the earth... I wouldnt say they were descendants, more so, nature decided they should evolve this way because it was most useful to them..."

Huh? It's nearly impossible to tell when something stops being a dinosaur and becomes a bird. In fact, not all birds survived the K-Pg event.

Sinornithosaurus, we have proof that primitive tyrannosaurs had feathers. We don't have proof T-rex did.

PS- Don't use Wikipedia as a source. Anyone can change it. If you're gonna use it, have a few other sources that show something similar. 

primitive ones had them, sure. i don't think that's the point anyy one is driving at

I think that the bigger ones like Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus were feathered as juveniles, but lost them as they grew, maybe the males kept a small amount of feathers around the neck/head area, just like lions

sure, i could see somethin like this:

those arms probably didn't get as much blood flow to them as the rest of the body. on the head sure, for display or maybe to retain body heat. Sure tyrannosaurus is a big animal, but during a cold winter it would probably need as much warmth as it could get

That picture fits very well, pretty much how i think a male Tyrannosaurus would look like