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I recently learned the reason why medieval drawings of animals are so weird is because the artist had, of course, never actually seen the animal and was just going off of what somebody else remembered.
So we basically ended up with a bunch of weird police sketches.
It’s like… the body of a fish, but it has like a puppy face. It has flippers instead of legs.