Martin Yeo

🦖 Why trexfeathers?

I originally wrote a website as a university project on the communication of science. I wrote about the evolution of feathers, and how the evidence is rather confusing. You can view the original site here.

One of the featured specimens was called Dilong, an ancestral tyrannosaur that was covered in downy feathers. This suggests that other tyrannosaurs, including the famous T. rex, could also have had feathers, so trexfeathers became the website domain.

I later expanded the site to include anything about me, but I kept trexfeathers as the domain and also as a unique online ‘handle’. The site initially used Joomla, then WordPress, but since becoming an avid GitHub user I’m enjoying this minimalist low-maintenance GitHub Pages setup.