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[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does anyone know if this is something that was actually possible? Like, how sure are we they looked one way and not the other?

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Every reconstruction involves some level of inference and speculation to literally ‘flesh out’ details not preserved in the fossil record,” Celeskey explains. “In the process of creating paleoart, artists and the researchers have discussions about how to fill in these missing pieces, which helps everyone involved to think about how they are interpreting the actual evidence at hand.” From a NatGeo article I found

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“I asked around the office and everyone agreed that giving the t-Rex wings looked dope”

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Similarly, "I asked around the office and everyone agreed that giving dinos the feathers we now know they had would look too silly"

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

"Triceratops had cat ears because of reasons."

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, sauropods were already right up against the limit of what's physically possible for a land animal on Earth. If they were that chonky they would have been too heavy and would have overheated just from their body heat.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like skinny dinosaur propaganda to me.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was in an Avant-funk band called Skinny Dinosaur Propaganda.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry to disappoint you, but it didn't. I made it up as a joke 🤷

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would it help if I pointed out that your hair looks nice today?

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nice! How much was it? I've been looking for a nice looking hair myself but they're outside of my price range!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Check your mammalian privilege.

Signed, dinosaurs.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago

Not very likely due to the weight. Same with the trunk suggestion, there was a lot of air space and gaps in the few skulls that were preserved to make them weight less.

[–] pipows@lemmy.today 12 points 2 years ago

Of course it's possible. It's highly improbable due to weight, of course, but it's not impossible.

There's a lot of information that was not recorded in fossil, and we have very few fossil recorded, compared to how many animals of a species lived. How we reconstruct existinct animals keeps on changing with every new information, so it's always cool to challenge the way we view a creature.