Honestly, no one could know what their skin looked like, whether feathers or scales.
You can only tell so much from bones if you don’t have a living counterpart by which to benchmark.
Most fossil evidence points to most if not all smaller dinosaurs having feathers, as well as the larger ones in cold climates, while larger ones in warmer climates were covered in scales. The pattern follows the tendency in mammals, with animals such as elephants and rhinos being almost hairless, while mammoths and most smaller mammals are covered in fur.
The article talks about a piece of one stuck in amber.
Still, that’s just one. That doesn’t mean all of them had feathers.
For sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehqV3lfayA
It's really neat to see videos of chickens and have their dinosaur eyes stare back at you as their feathers fluff up to signal that you shouldn't get any closer.
We actually have pretty good ideas:
1) We know that a lot of them had scales and how their skin looked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehqV3lfayA
2) I cannot find the video but we do have skin samples with fossilized pigment. Pigment doesn't degrade but it changes chemistry during embedding in fossilized deposits and there are skin samples that provide suggestsions of tints that people think they can use to extrapolate into what the actual pigments of the scales may have been.
3) We actually have flexible t-rex tissue which includes flexible ligaments and blood cells here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-K7_H27Wq4
The blood is degraded and they say all the genetic material has decomposed because of the half life of genes.
It is actually thought that most of the very large fossilized bone has soft tissue at the center of it. Basically, we have 80 million year old trex tissue available to us today.
We know quite a lot about dinos.
Dating is all joo-ed out tho. I remember a post that has actual peer reviewed analysis of 'dinosaur dna and blood iirc . It was a creation channel as opposed to evolution tho. There were dozens of examples of dna , ligament, tissue etc of 'Dinosaurs' dating back hundreds of years not millions . Whatever they were , some survived until the middle ages and were not all extinct millions of years old. Use to be a great ytube channel 10 yrs ago or more that posted actual Middle age texts that speak of various accounts in great detail that basically describe what we would recognize as a 'Terrible lizard' the size of horses and elephants etc, some spat poison others were carnivorous, highly aggressive and territorial. Guarantee the Vatican has plenty of these accounts stashed away never to see the light of normie eyes ...
The only thing joo-ed out is your perspective. I support your right to pursue this line of thought on the principle that scientists have lost their way, but, there is no way anything you just posited is even remotely plausible.
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