rikudou@lemmings.world
on 20 Apr 20:03
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I was in a dinopark recently and there were some bone replicas, footprints etc. and I was constantly like “how the hell didn’t the scientists see that it’s just a giant chicken?”
The only scientifically accurate scene in Jurassic Park has a little boy say the velociraptor looks like a turkey. They knew dinosaurs were chickens, they just didn’t bother showing us in movies.
The teeth on the rabbit skull don’t match up with the picture of what aliens would picture. They might misinterpret some things but not the obvious characteristics.
rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
on 20 Apr 21:23
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The whole body doesn’t match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.
I think it’s just jabbing at our early assumptions about dinosaurs seemingly lacking much in the way of bulk. We used to interpret them as these ultra-skinny weirdly mummified looking things rather than the plumper creatures many of them probably were.
The idea is that aliens find skeletons of animals we’re more familiar with and come to the same kind of wildly mistaken conclusions about them that we might have if we’d found rabbit skeletons without having first hand experience of modern rabbits.
The hind legs also have the joints in proportionally the wrong places compared to the skeleton. I reckon they gave it to the intern to reconstruct, and they just hastily banged it out last thing on a Friday afternoon after a liquid lunch.
6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 21 Apr 00:01
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do you think someone just actually whipped up a 3d model just for a meme?
Imagine aliens finding earth a few centuries after we kill ourselves through climate change and war, they find a human skeleton but mix up a bunch of bones with dogs and cats, and they also believed we had feathers.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
on 21 Apr 00:15
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The common art keeps giving them long feathers on their arms but I would have assumed long feathers only evolved on flying birds and most of the feathers on the flightless dinosaurs would be pretty uniform.
Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Apr 13:28
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unfortunately a lot of art just sorta glues a bunch of feathers to a deinonychus and calls it a velociraptor, but here’s some stuff i feel makes more sense.
(Also side note: t.rex probably was actually mostly naked, however it was likely skin rather than scales, like a giant plucked monster turkey, which IMO is significantly worse.)
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world
on 21 Apr 13:23
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And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
We’re pretty sure now that they were more similar to birbs with proto feathers acting as fur. So many of them probably would be puff balls. Although it was also hotter back then.
Fuck me the baboon image was serious nightmare fuel.
Can you imagine if we somehow were able to get 100% accurate images of dinosaurs (with the feathers… they were birds, not reptiles, and warm blooded, too) and the T-rex chirped and kinda looked like a giant chicken?
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That rabbit’s dynamite!
It’s got a vicious streak a mile wide!
I was in a dinopark recently and there were some bone replicas, footprints etc. and I was constantly like “how the hell didn’t the scientists see that it’s just a giant chicken?”
Some of it is extremely obvious.
I’m not sure what a chicken would look like with a tail like that though.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencefriday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2F01-TrexandChickenSkeletons.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=5341f6f63ded3680f1c4f373c9f275e40c17a58d25dce69b4f511823ca485d64
Chicken walking like a dinosaur
Chickens With T-Rex Arms
The only scientifically accurate scene in Jurassic Park has a little boy say the velociraptor looks like a turkey. They knew dinosaurs were chickens, they just didn’t bother showing us in movies.
They retconned Jurassic park saying the skin was like that because of the genes they had to splice up in order to bring them back to life.
Not that weird, considering they already had that in the original movie. Frog DNA.
The teeth on the rabbit skull don’t match up with the picture of what aliens would picture. They might misinterpret some things but not the obvious characteristics.
The whole body doesn’t match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.
I think it’s just jabbing at our early assumptions about dinosaurs seemingly lacking much in the way of bulk. We used to interpret them as these ultra-skinny weirdly mummified looking things rather than the plumper creatures many of them probably were.
The idea is that aliens find skeletons of animals we’re more familiar with and come to the same kind of wildly mistaken conclusions about them that we might have if we’d found rabbit skeletons without having first hand experience of modern rabbits.
The hind legs also have the joints in proportionally the wrong places compared to the skeleton. I reckon they gave it to the intern to reconstruct, and they just hastily banged it out last thing on a Friday afternoon after a liquid lunch.
do you think someone just actually whipped up a 3d model just for a meme?
That would be dishonest, I’m pretty sure they sourced that from aliens.
Everyone knows aliens cannot make mistakes.
Love me some shrink wrap in my paleo art. The ones depicting baboons are especially nightmarish.
Hippos are mine.
For everyone who doesn’t feel like searching:
Baboon
Hippopotamus
Elephant (left), Zebra (top), Rhinoceros (bottom)
Swan
Imagine aliens finding earth a few centuries after we kill ourselves through climate change and war, they find a human skeleton but mix up a bunch of bones with dogs and cats, and they also believed we had feathers.
Lagomorph sounds way cooler than it is too.
How about laimaguoph?
youtu.be/9ZVgbljHtxM?t=20m3s
I didn’t realize rabbits had such long tailbones.
Has anyone actually tried representing dinosaurs like fluffy (or very feathery) animals?
Yes.
Thank you.
Neeed images
Most dinosaur recreations now just go “what would a bird with this skeleton look like?”
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/61ff848b-914d-46af-aef1-8076dc2b9cf2.jpeg">
A 15’ chicken with teeth would be terrifying.
The common art keeps giving them long feathers on their arms but I would have assumed long feathers only evolved on flying birds and most of the feathers on the flightless dinosaurs would be pretty uniform.
I’ve also come across these. There’s a lot we don’t know, all of these could be entirely wrong.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f3c87e65-3f1b-4d10-9053-5ffbe81bc236.jpeg">
Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?
unfortunately a lot of art just sorta glues a bunch of feathers to a deinonychus and calls it a velociraptor, but here’s some stuff i feel makes more sense.
(Also side note: t.rex probably was actually mostly naked, however it was likely skin rather than scales, like a giant plucked monster turkey, which IMO is significantly worse.)
<img alt="" src="https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/42a2645f-3e5d-4d7e-aad7-e7e666c50cdd.png">
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Look at the bones!
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And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
Best deus ex machina ever!
Machina ex deus, technically.
Best Machina ex deus ever! (then)
I always wondered What if all dinosaurs were big furry balls with large ears…
We’re pretty sure now that they were more similar to birbs with proto feathers acting as fur. So many of them probably would be puff balls. Although it was also hotter back then.
We’ve never been very good at this either
Fuck me the baboon image was serious nightmare fuel.
Can you imagine if we somehow were able to get 100% accurate images of dinosaurs (with the feathers… they were birds, not reptiles, and warm blooded, too) and the T-rex chirped and kinda looked like a giant chicken?