Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1747/
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.
This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit
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.
Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing
Science is a process. Just because it’s improved today doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
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
Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.
So you’re saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)
Or a giant duck.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Brits!
Well I didn’t vote for you…
You don’t vote for kings.
You can’t expect to wield suppreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
My liege!
Would you rather fight 1 T. Rex-sized duck or 100 duck-sized T. Rexes?
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.
I lay breakfast for the mean apes.
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.
Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids…
Fixed
Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models
Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee
the ferocious earth animal known as hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly
I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals
I’ve always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?
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.
He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day
