Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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To be fair here’s how cats would be reconstructed if they went extinct and we had to rely on fossils:
…nah, screw that, the lady in my pic is still hella charming, the one in the OP is an abomination!
Translated from Spanish
And they didn’t even make some joke on how dumb (burro) it looks like! hglksflksdlllksdf
No they’d look like their skin was shrink wrapped to their skeleton on top of having no hair. They’d probably leave off the ears too
John Conway and CM Koseman did modern animals drawn like dinosaur illustrations. I can’t find the original posts but here’s a buzzfeed article with a good assortment, including a reptilian rendition of a cat.
you don’t know they didn’t have the plumage of a tukey
handsockasaur
Weird and I’m surprised it would have such a narrow snout but hey. Aesthetically an improvement I’d say
Naked moletaburrasaurus.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
At first I read that as ‘masturbateasaurus’ and thought I was having a seizure.
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 day ago
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