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[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 122 points 6 months ago
[-] snooggums@midwest.social 53 points 6 months ago

Since birds are dinosaurs and have all kinds of specialized behaviors and non-fossilizing traits like specialized feathers, I assume the big dinosaurs had all kinds of wacky shenanigans and non-fossilizing soft tissues too.

[-] ogler@lemmynsfw.com 79 points 6 months ago

dinosaurs may have had big honkers there's simply no way to know whether or not they had big mommy milkers the soft tissue of the gazongas is not preserved in the fossil record experts are divided on the question of whether dinosaurs had huge jugs each outcome is equally likely there is a fifty percent chance that every dinosaur was blessed with real big hoohas

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

Normally I'm not on board with the perversity of the modern internet, but there's something noble in what you're doing.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 24 points 6 months ago

new copypasta just dropped

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Are… uh… furries, but with scales… a thing?

Almost afraid to ask.

If not… I imagine they’re about to be.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago

Yes. They're unsurprisingly called scalies

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

You've never seen anthro dragon porn?? What the fuck kind of weird ass porn do you watch that you've never seen dragon porn?

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 11 points 6 months ago

Dinosaurs were not mammals, so they did not have huge boobs, at least in a sense of mammary glands.

Of course, those non-avian dinosaurs that died could have had some kinky sexual organs but non of the bird species we know of has huge mammary glands so avian dinosaurs most likely did not have either.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

pteranodons had massive, dangly clits. thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 56 points 6 months ago

Hippos smile like on the right, but will tear you to shreds like in the middle.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 months ago

Well, no. The one in the middle would do it because he wanted to eat you. The hippo is a vegetarian who would do it for the sheer joy of killing.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

The one in the middle has no muscles so…

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 54 points 6 months ago

This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 60 points 6 months ago

They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.

Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 months ago

Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

Science is a process. Just because it's improved today doesn't mean it's perfect.

[-] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It could be that all of the lifeforms the aliens have ever seen had that shrink-wrapped look, so they'd have no reason to look for muscle attachments

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

So you're saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago
[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I am Arthur, King of the Brits!

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

Well I didn't vote for you...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago
[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

You can't expect to wield suppreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago
[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Would you rather fight 1 T. Rex-sized duck or 100 duck-sized T. Rexes?

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

100 duck sized t. rexes, and it's not even close. Grab a couple of the little bastards by the neck and start swinging until they're all dead. The big boy would crush you with one bite. This also applies to the question that yours was likely inspired by.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Honestly it would be a more accurate portrayal of how vicious hippos actually are. I think on this one, nature is just fucking with us by making hippos look that way.

[-] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids..

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago
[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the ferocious earth animal known as hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models

[-] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago

Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 6 months ago

That hippo has the face of someone getting blown.

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Definitely getting the best head out of the three

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I've always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

If they’re in a zoo, they cut them off because they’re basically six-8 daggers and hippos are freaking mean.

Here’s a reasonable link, but yes they also wear down in the wild.

[-] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day

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