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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it's hippos

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that mean T-Rex actually looked cuddly and friend shaped?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Damn! I was hoping they were friend-shaped this whole time. The babies look kinda cute at least.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, hippos are one of the most dangerous animals for humans

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotta be about third after humans and mosquitoes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Chihuahuas are scary af. They could easily be on second or third.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Scary, but not a serious threat.

You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Depends on the amount.

I'd rather fight against 1 hippo than the equivalent body weight in chihuahuas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

A hippo would definitely be preferable. A fast and brutal death is preferable to getting your ankles bit out from under you by a thousand Chihuahua.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/happy-hollow-san-jose-horses-donkey-dog-maul-dead-12537735.php

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

such a fluffy boi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If friend shaped, why devouring me whole?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

*Paleontologists

Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

We know what you mean, new ones are Jurassic WORLD.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Interesting thought, but don't penguins have feathers for insulation from cold weather so without the feathers they probably look less chunky.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, you can look at pics of penguins that lost their feathers. Their body shape is from the fat.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

SPACE LLAMAAA

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Checking out some walrus skeletons... yeah, I don't see why not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Kind of hard to maintain that bulk on leaves and grass, bud. I guess it would help them with predators, though.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Hippos and rhinos get pretty big on that diet! If anything plants are a better diet for something really chunky because plants cannot run away

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As well as silverbacks, and giant pandas

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

People use the term “strong as an ox.” Oxen don’t eat meat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

plants cannot run away

Sure, you just need a lot of it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

They have a good idea how much the big sauropods might have weighed based on fossilized foot prints and bone structure. Still, if something is not preserved in the fossil record it will not be shown in reconstructions.

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