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[-] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

new copypasta just dropped

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Almost afraid to ask.

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yes. They're unsurprisingly called scalies

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The one in the middle has no muscles so…

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I am Arthur, King of the Brits!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well I didn't vote for you...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That hippo has the face of someone getting blown.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely getting the best head out of the three

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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