Comment on my humps

traches@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • traches@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Science is a process. Just because it’s improved today doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

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    • Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.

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