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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Penguins are technically dinosaurs.

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

Dinosaurs are technically penguins

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago

Isn't this a while thing? Where archeologists have drawn alternative interpretations of what dinosaurs could have looked like. I think there was a famous example, where red they got people to.draw a dinosaur from a hippo skeleton and the creature was really scary looking?

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it's hippos

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't that mean T-Rex actually looked cuddly and friend shaped?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Damn! I was hoping they were friend-shaped this whole time. The babies look kinda cute at least.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

To be fair, hippos are one of the most dangerous animals for humans

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Gotta be about third after humans and mosquitoes.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Chihuahuas are scary af. They could easily be on second or third.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Scary, but not a serious threat.

You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.

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

Depends on the amount.

I'd rather fight against 1 hippo than the equivalent body weight in chihuahuas.

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

A hippo would definitely be preferable. A fast and brutal death is preferable to getting your ankles bit out from under you by a thousand Chihuahua.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The thing about chihuahuas is they get other dogs to do their dirty work

Caramena said a pack of three dogs dug under two six-inch chainlink fences to reach the communal animal enclosure on the night of Jan. 19. Happy Hollow staff members found the slaughtered equines covered in bite marks the following morning.

The third canine, a chihuahua, has not been caught but is "not considered a threat.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/happy-hollow-san-jose-horses-donkey-dog-maul-dead-12537735.php

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

All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

such a fluffy boi

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

If friend shaped, why devouring me whole?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.

To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.

Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.

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

*Paleontologists

Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!

Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.

Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Before my local pub closed, there was a friendly paleontologist who would pop in from time-to-time.

My favourite thing was to go up to her and say "So in Jurassic Park...", which always prompted an impromptu lecture about dinosaurs, what Jurassic Park (any of them) got wrong, and whatever else she was thinking about, which was always super interesting.

Last thing I learned about was heated Discord debates among her colleagues about dire wolves.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

God they're bad.

But I loved the super-military dino they had trained that would attack someone if you pointed a rifles laser at them.

Like - you're already pointing a gun at them.

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

We know what you mean, new ones are Jurassic WORLD.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!

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

they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting thought, but don't penguins have feathers for insulation from cold weather so without the feathers they probably look less chunky.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?

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

They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.

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

Nah, you can look at pics of penguins that lost their feathers. Their body shape is from the fat.

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

Penguins without their feathers are still pretty chonk, and decidedly penguin-shaped.

Their feathers (adult feathers, anyhow) are actually rather short but their coverage is extremely dense. The feathers make them waterproof, not insulated. Their thick skin and layer of fat is what makes them coldproof.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

SPACE LLAMAAA

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.

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

Checking out some walrus skeletons... yeah, I don't see why not.

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

Kind of hard to maintain that bulk on leaves and grass, bud. I guess it would help them with predators, though.

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

Hippos and rhinos get pretty big on that diet! If anything plants are a better diet for something really chunky because plants cannot run away

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As well as silverbacks, and giant pandas

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

People use the term “strong as an ox.” Oxen don’t eat meat.

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

plants cannot run away

Sure, you just need a lot of it.

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

True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.

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

They have a good idea how much the big sauropods might have weighed based on fossilized foot prints and bone structure. Still, if something is not preserved in the fossil record it will not be shown in reconstructions.

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