I always wondered What if all dinosaurs were big furry balls with large ears…
Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
Submitted 19 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
Klear@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
SquirrelX@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Has anyone actually tried representing dinosaurs like fluffy (or very feathery) animals?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours 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.)cynar@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 18 hours 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 15 hours ago
do you think someone just actually whipped up a 3d model just for a meme?
blackbrook@mander.xyz 59 minutes ago
That would be dishonest, I’m pretty sure they sourced that from aliens.
notabot@lemm.ee 17 hours 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 18 hours ago
The whole body doesn’t match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.
millie@beehaw.org 17 hours 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.
rikudou@lemmings.world 19 hours 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 5 hours 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 56 minutes 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 6 hours ago
I’m not sure what a chicken would look like with a tail like that though.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
Lagomorph sounds way cooler than it is too.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
How about laimaguoph?
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
I didn’t realize rabbits had such long tailbones.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Look at the bones!
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Love me some shrink wrap in my paleo art. The ones depicting baboons are especially nightmarish.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
For everyone who doesn’t feel like searching:
raltoid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Hippos are mine.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That rabbit’s dynamite!
El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
It’s got a vicious streak a mile wide!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 hours 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.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 47 minutes ago
We’ve never been very good at this either