Deinonychosauria

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Our brand-new group has a certain affinity with your group scope. Ofc there is a lot of filtering and selection going on like there should be on any group

ArsRapax | DeviantArt

I just had a question I figured someone in this group might be able to answer - I’m not hating on anyone’s interpretations, and I love feathery dinos, but why are feathered raptors almost always drawn with long, full wing feathers? In flightless birds, like penguins and flightless cormorants, I’ve noticed that they either don’t have wing feathers at all (penguins) or very raggedy wing feathers (flightless cormorants).

Is the cleanliness and fullness of dino wings just played up for aesthetic? Do they have an evolutionary purpose? I get that some small raptors could be closely related to or evolving into birds, but would a raptor as big as a utahraptor really have a need for wing feathers?

(I’m no dinosaur expert, I’m just curious.)

Hue