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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, you kinda can’t know what fossils looked like based on the skeleton. What everyone thinks dinosaurs look like is vastly different from what they most likely looked like.

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  • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, we can’t know everything, but in the last couple of decades we’ve learned how to derive quite a bit about an animal from a fossil. Things like where muscles attach let us figure out the muscle structure, the size and structure of bones yields hints to what and where an organism’s weight was, and from the little nubs on the bones we can tell where feathers are. And all of that can come together and form a decent picture of what that animal’s behavior was. That’s just the stuff I’m aware of as a casual, I’m sure there’s tons more clues in fossils that I’m not aware of.

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    • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t say we know. It’s an educated guess, but it’s incomplete.

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• Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes and no. Its not uncommon to make extreme predictions just for the sake of “What if?”. Sometimes it actually helps us find stuff out, sense this is all guess and check anyway.

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok but has this actually been proposed by an archeologist in accordance with the evidence we have? Is this a possible recreation or has it in effect already been disproven with what we know?

    There’s a big difference between “in 2024 an archeologist asked an artist to paint this” and “someone on ticktock ai generated this”.

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    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, its literally signed by the author for starters, and this is a very common thing in paleo-art. ESPECIALLY with something as controversial as spinosaurus. What spinosaurus looked like and how it behaved has been the subject of intense debate and multiple revisions over the last 2 decades.

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      • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There is also an unreadable (due to compression) watermark under to it, how would I know it is actually an artists signature?
        I assume then it is, and of an artist you recognize to be credible?

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The hind legs? No way.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that part seems hard to believe.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  from what i know of spinosaurus this has to be one of those semi-tongue-in-cheek depictions that show something clearly made up yet way more sensible than early paleoart, to make a point about how we should keep an open mind and that these animals PROBABLY ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE ANIMALS

  like the fluffy sparrow-looking T.rex, it almost certainly didn’t look like this but it’s a much better assumption than featherless scaly monsters.
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