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[–] 163 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

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

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  • [–] 76 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 38 points 3 weeks ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks 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!

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  • [–] 104 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)
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    Is this a certain type of rabbit or is it normal to shave them while leaving a moustache?

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 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:

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  • [–] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks 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.

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    [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Look, all I'm saying is we have no proof that the dinosaurs didn't drive cars.

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    [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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/

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    [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    scientists:

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    we used to have bunnies and ducks and one time we were cleaning up the bunny place and transferred rabbits to a nearby coop. The ducks gathered around it and started quacking at bunnies in this bully manner the ducks do - and then one of the ducks stuck their head into the coop and mama bunny fucked up this motherfucker and turned the coop upside down in the process. that duck got the scarface nickname as a result.

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