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by teruakohatu 36 days ago
"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" [1]

There is no evidence for example that protoceratops, whose skulls are pictured in the article, had feathers.

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.

[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/march/the-first-din...