• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The teeth on the rabbit skull don’t match up with the picture of what aliens would picture. They might misinterpret some things but not the obvious characteristics.

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      The hind legs also have the joints in proportionally the wrong places compared to the skeleton. I reckon they gave it to the intern to reconstruct, and they just hastily banged it out last thing on a Friday afternoon after a liquid lunch.

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      I think it’s just jabbing at our early assumptions about dinosaurs seemingly lacking much in the way of bulk. We used to interpret them as these ultra-skinny weirdly mummified looking things rather than the plumper creatures many of them probably were.

      The idea is that aliens find skeletons of animals we’re more familiar with and come to the same kind of wildly mistaken conclusions about them that we might have if we’d found rabbit skeletons without having first hand experience of modern rabbits.

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      And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

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        The common art keeps giving them long feathers on their arms but I would have assumed long feathers only evolved on flying birds and most of the feathers on the flightless dinosaurs would be pretty uniform.

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          I’ve also come across these. There’s a lot we don’t know, all of these could be entirely wrong.

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            Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?

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      unfortunately a lot of art just sorta glues a bunch of feathers to a deinonychus and calls it a velociraptor, but here’s some stuff i feel makes more sense.
      (Also side note: t.rex probably was actually mostly naked, however it was likely skin rather than scales, like a giant plucked monster turkey, which IMO is significantly worse.)

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      We’re pretty sure now that they were more similar to birbs with proto feathers acting as fur. So many of them probably would be puff balls. Although it was also hotter back then.

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      Fuck me the baboon image was serious nightmare fuel.

      Can you imagine if we somehow were able to get 100% accurate images of dinosaurs (with the feathers… they were birds, not reptiles, and warm blooded, too) and the T-rex chirped and kinda looked like a giant chicken?