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Uncommon card · Nature
Feathered dinosaur, an Uncommon card
A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers, including all species of birds.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 80,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Feathered dinosaur quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Feathered dinosaur card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The extent to which feathers or feather-like structures were present in dinosaurs as a whole is a ______ of ongoing debate and research.
Answer
subject. The extent to which feathers or feather-like structures were present in dinosaurs as a whole is a subject of ongoing debate and research. From the Feathered dinosaur article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Burushaski. Burushaski 85 · Bacillus 81 · Feathered dinosaur 77 · Glycogen 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Glycogen. Glycogen 100,000 · Feathered dinosaur 80,000 · Accretion 62,000 · Choanoflagellate 41,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In recent decades, evidence has accumulated that many non-avian dinosaur species also possessed feathers or feather-like structures in some shape or form.
- The extent to which feathers or feather-like structures were present in dinosaurs as a whole is a subject of ongoing debate and research.
- It has been suggested that feathers had originally functioned as thermal insulation, as it remains their function in the down feathers of infant birds prior to their eventual modification in birds into structures that support flight.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Feathered dinosaur article was read about 80,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Feathered dinosaur
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Feathered dinosaur in the power ranking, all domains together.
- BacillusUncommon · Nature · ATK 81 DEF 70
- Impact craterUncommon · Science · ATK 75 DEF 76
- Argentine antUncommon · Nature · ATK 74 DEF 77
- Anthony ParkerUncommon · History · ATK 72 DEF 79
- BurushaskiUncommon · Society · ATK 85 DEF 66
- John B. GoodenoughUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 78
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Feathered dinosaur (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robert Nicholls, published by Angus D. Croudace, Caizhi Shen, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brus, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
