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Make dinosaurs weirder (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just looking at the skeleton, we would reconstruct a lot of thing wrong.

Camel:

Platypus:

Seal:

Elephant:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This was already done in "All Todays," which features depictions of modern animals as distant-future paleontologists might reconstruct them, given just skeletal remains.

Example of Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino:

'All Todays' Explained - https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2020/09/16/all-todays.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting.