There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.
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Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
Before my local pub closed, there was a friendly paleontologist who would pop in from time-to-time.
My favourite thing was to go up to her and say "So in Jurassic Park...", which always prompted an impromptu lecture about dinosaurs, what Jurassic Park (any of them) got wrong, and whatever else she was thinking about, which was always super interesting.
Last thing I learned about was heated Discord debates among her colleagues about dire wolves.
Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.
God they're bad.
But I loved the super-military dino they had trained that would attack someone if you pointed a rifles laser at them.
Like - you're already pointing a gun at them.
you're already pointing a gun at them
Yeah, a gun with dinosaurs for bullets.
We know what you mean, new ones are Jurassic WORLD.
they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.
Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!
Isn't this a while thing? Where archeologists have drawn alternative interpretations of what dinosaurs could have looked like. I think there was a famous example, where red they got people to.draw a dinosaur from a hippo skeleton and the creature was really scary looking?
To be fair, hippos are one of the most dangerous animals for humans
Gotta be about third after humans and mosquitoes.
Chihuahuas are scary af. They could easily be on second or third.
Scary, but not a serious threat.
You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.
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The thing about chihuahuas is they get other dogs to do their dirty work
Caramena said a pack of three dogs dug under two six-inch chainlink fences to reach the communal animal enclosure on the night of Jan. 19. Happy Hollow staff members found the slaughtered equines covered in bite marks the following morning.
The third canine, a chihuahua, has not been caught but is "not considered a threat.
Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures
If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it's hippos
Wouldn't that mean T-Rex actually looked cuddly and friend shaped?
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All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
Watching that before bed gave me a weird dream that fucked me up for a few days
Alt Shift X YouTube channel made an amazing video covering this book and since the book is mostly images, just watching this video is enough to understand the entire story.
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I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.
such a fluffy boi
Sure..."friend." I think upon meeting one, you would find how friendly the worm finds the songbird.
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I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.
To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.
Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.
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*Paleontologists
Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture
That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.
Interesting thought, but don't penguins have feathers for insulation from cold weather so without the feathers they probably look less chunky.
Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?
They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.
Nah, you can look at pics of penguins that lost their feathers. Their body shape is from the fat.
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Penguins without their feathers are still pretty chonk, and decidedly penguin-shaped.
Their feathers (adult feathers, anyhow) are actually rather short but their coverage is extremely dense. The feathers make them waterproof, not insulated. Their thick skin and layer of fat is what makes them coldproof.
It looks like me looking at myself in the mirror after a shower.
Checking out some walrus skeletons... yeah, I don't see why not.
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