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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/1747/

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Relevant xkcd

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  • ogler@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    dinosaurs may have had big honkers there’s simply no way to know whether or not they had big mommy milkers the soft tissue of the gazongas is not preserved in the fossil record experts are divided on the question of whether dinosaurs had huge jugs each outcome is equally likely there is a fifty percent chance that every dinosaur was blessed with real big hoohas

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    • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Normally I’m not on board with the perversity of the modern internet, but there’s something noble in what you’re doing.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      new copypasta just dropped

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Are… uh… furries, but with scales… a thing?

        Almost afraid to ask.

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    • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Dinosaurs were not mammals, so they did not have huge boobs, at least in a sense of mammary glands.

      Of course, those non-avian dinosaurs that died could have had some kinky sexual organs but non of the bird species we know of has huge mammary glands so avian dinosaurs most likely did not have either.

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      • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        pteranodons had massive, dangly clits. thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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  • traches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Hippos smile like on the right, but will tear you to shreds like in the middle.

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well, no. The one in the middle would do it because he wanted to eat you. The hippo is a vegetarian who would do it for the sheer joy of killing.

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      • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        The one in the middle has no muscles so…

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    So you’re saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Or a giant duck.

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      • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Would you rather fight 1 T. Rex-sized duck or 100 duck-sized T. Rexes?

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Honestly it would be a more accurate portrayal of how viscous hippos actually are. I think on this one, nature is just fucking with us by making hippos look that way.

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    • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids…

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      • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Fixed

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  • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models

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    • growsomethinggood@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    the ferocious earth animal hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That hippo has the face of someone getting blown.

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    • iiGxC@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Definitely getting the best head out of the three

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day

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