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[–] M137@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's
"What * * like" (What it looks like)
OR
"How * *" (How it looks)
It's never
"How * * like"

How is this so fucking hard to get right.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh my god wait does this mean T-Rex was a cutie-wootie-rootie-patootie? πŸ₯Ή

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Check out the coffee table book, All Yesterdays. It's half reinterpretations of known fossils, half artist renderings of contemporary animals based only on their skeletons. We're obviously misinterpreting a lot of creatures going just off their skeletons and we'll never know how they really appeared.

As I recall, this is from the skeleton of a contemporary species of monkey, as an example:

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Then when you're done, check out All Tomorrows to really just cement the nightmare fuel.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

That’s cool, thank you for sharing!

[–] MrChewy@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just in case though... let's prepare the holy hand granade... juuuuust in case...

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

But to which number you have to count?

[–] Robotunicorn@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! He'll do you up a treat, mate.

Run away. Run away.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Their spines are fascinating. They're designed to store a lot of potential energy and release it in short bursts.

Rabbits can fuckin' move, and the biomechanics behind why is absolutely enthralling.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

If you pick them up incorrectly they can fracture their own spine with those kicks

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Yet they're very fragile (the spine) sadly. Same with Guinea pigs.

[–] khanas1f@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Explains the way they fuck

scientists:

[–] architectonas@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago
[–] starik@lemmy.today 124 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Scientists are the ones who figured out that dinosaurs had feathers. Whenever science is proven wrong, it’s with more/better science.

[–] charokol@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This kind of β€œscientists are so stupid” mindset is so weird

[–] edwardbear@lemmy.world 2 points 40 minutes ago

No. Not weird. Dangerous. Only people in the world, who get to hold a β€œtold ya so” sign, while civilisation and humanity burns, out of their own hubris

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn't even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I ain't no monkey!

Ugh, lol

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 16 points 12 hours ago

Science success story:

Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.

White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!

Science wins again!

[–] Klear@piefed.world 62 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

They even know the colouration of a bunch of them, like this Sinosauropteryx:

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they're depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we've gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil' guy. Amazing stuff.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 hours ago

You might also get to see incorrect depictions of animals from our time that are extinct in the future, depending on how much information is lost between now and then.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I share your sentiment but I'd rather go back and see for myself. The future is completely unknown, who knows if you'd land right on the front line in WWIII. At least in the past I have a vague idea of what parts of time to avoid landing in.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 15 hours ago

You could say the same for the past, we don't know when dinosaur World War 2 was, perhaps you'll meet dinosaur Elon Musk and have to talk to him, it's a hell of a risk.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm glad it was so happy when it died. Doing itsy little walk, my cat does that when he has successfully captured the elusive ball of foil.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 11 points 16 hours ago

But first somebody had to make a movie with the wrong data, making the whole field cool enough to get funding to found out they were wrong.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This has always been the one thing that has always bug me with the creation of dinosaurs in book, tv, movies etc. If you look at the skulls of hippos or elephants, they look far different than the actual living animal.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

They don’t just look at the bone structure.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Artist/authors John Conway and C. M. Kosemen have a book called All Yesterdays about this subject.

https://designyoutrust.com/2020/09/if-we-drew-modern-animals-the-way-we-draw-dinosaurs-based-on-bones-alone/

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

He's also got a very interesting book called All Tomorrows

[–] NaibofTabr 93 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 42 points 18 hours ago

I'm not old enough to see naked bunnies 🫒

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 41 points 20 hours ago

Look at those lil β€˜staches! That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a certain type of rabbit or is it normal to shave them while leaving a moustache?

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I imagine the shaver meant to leave the whiskers be

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 5 points 11 hours ago

Same as a cat with skin/fur issues showing up to a vet then yeah.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago

What the animal's skeleton looks like. Or How the animal's skeleton looks.

[–] ThoGot@feddit.org 17 points 19 hours ago

I mean hares basically look like the sketch (plus ears)

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly not that far off. It's like a wet bunny without the ears.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 23 points 20 hours ago

And if the scientists tried hard enough, they could probably figure out the large ears, too -- the skull would have slightly stronger muscle attachment points and vasculature openings to support the larger ears ... although that still wouldn't really tell the scientists what shape the large ears were, though. So you might still get a very odd-looking bunny out of it.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 13 hours ago

I go back to All Tomorrows every now and then. It's weird.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Just to add context, there is a good book called All Yesterdays about how earlier assumptions of dinosaur appearances based on fossil records have been challenged over time by new evidence. A lot of the artists who have developed visual recreations of dinosaurs in the past were working under assumptions of what dinosaurs were supposed to look like. But skeletons alone aren't always the best reference to use to base appearance off of, because soft tissue (lost to time) can often contain the most iconic aspects of a species.

So just to riff on that idea, the book contains a section called "All Todays" in which artists take modern animal skeletons we are familiar with and recreate them as if they were dinosaurs. So you end up with these gaunt creatures that are missing distinct features like ears, noses, fur/features, and coloration.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 20 hours ago

I thought the bun is the one who is alert, and you're just notified?

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