Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Klear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
rikudou@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
oo1@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure what a chicken would look like with a tail like that though.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Lagomorph sounds way cooler than it is too.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
How about laimaguoph?
SquirrelX@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Has anyone actually tried representing dinosaurs like fluffy (or very feathery) animals?
cynar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.)
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always wondered What if all dinosaurs were big furry balls with large ears…
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Love me some shrink wrap in my paleo art. The ones depicting baboons are especially nightmarish.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
For everyone who doesn’t feel like searching:
raltoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hippos are mine.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I didn’t realize rabbits had such long tailbones.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That rabbit’s dynamite!
El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It’s got a vicious streak a mile wide!
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Look at the bones!
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
We’ve never been very good at this either
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
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.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
do you think someone just actually whipped up a 3d model just for a meme?
blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
That would be dishonest, I’m pretty sure they sourced that from aliens.
notabot@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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.
rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The whole body doesn’t match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.
millie@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
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.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Everyone knows aliens cannot make mistakes.