Scientifically accurate Watership Down
Bunnies are metal
Submitted 1 day ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
obvs@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I am convinced that dinosaurs looked completely different than is being guessed with their skeletons.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
zero percent fat. Do you even lift?
starik@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Scientists are the ones who figured out that dinosaurs had feathers. Whenever science is proven wrong, it’s with more/better science.
Klear@piefed.world 1 day ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they’re depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we’ve gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil’ guy. Amazing stuff.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’m glad it was so happy when it died. Doing itsy little walk, my cat does that when he is successfully captured the elusive ball of foil.
charokol@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This kind of “scientists are so stupid” mindset is so weird
edwardbear@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
No. Not weird. Dangerous. Only people in the world, who get to hold a “told ya so” sign, while civilisation and humanity burns, out of their own hubris
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
Science success story:
Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.
White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!
Science wins again!
Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But first somebody had to make a movie with the wrong data, making the whole field cool enough to get funding to found out they were wrong.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 day ago
While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn’t even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.
FishFace@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Eh? Dinosaurs are reptiles in any system of classification I know of.
I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at but it sounds like you’re referring to the fact that, cladistically, birds are dinosaurs. But there were non-bird dinosaurs, and what this all means for the clades is just that all birds are reptiles.
Of course normally we are not speaking cladistically. In that context, birds are not dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are still reptiles, and reptiles excludes birds.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I ain’t no monkey!
Ugh, lol
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
I’m not old enough to see naked bunnies 🫢
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look at those lil ‘staches! That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day
otter@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Is this a certain type of rabbit or is it normal to shave them while leaving a moustache?
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I imagine the shaver meant to leave the whiskers be
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
What the animal’s skeleton looks like. Or How the animal’s skeleton looks.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Check out the coffee table book, All Yesterdays. It’s half reinterpretations of known fossils, half artist renderings of contemporary animals based only on their skeletons. We’re obviously misinterpreting a lot of creatures going just off their skeletons and we’ll never know how they really appeared.
As I recall, this is from the skeleton of a contemporary species of monkey, as an example:
hansolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then when you’re done, check out All Tomorrows to really just cement the nightmare fuel.
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s cool, thank you for sharing!
M137@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
It’s
“What * * like” (What it looks like) OR “How * *” (How it looks) It’s never
“How * * like”How is this so fucking hard to get right.
wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Thank you! I only opened this thread to comment the exact same thing. Glad to know I’m not the only one who felt the need.
droans@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Look, all I’m saying is we have no proof that the dinosaurs didn’t drive cars.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
We can’t say that they didn’t drive spaceships!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh my god wait does this mean T-Rex was a cutie-wootie-rootie-patootie? 🥹
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
technically dinosaurs are giant chicken
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Maybe like our murder kittens (Like tiger or lion), maybe… It’s still probably the largest predator on land in history though…
hansolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Probably fluffy, cute, and with fancy floppy ears.
Robotunicorn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! He’ll do you up a treat, mate.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Run away. Run away.
kofe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Look at tha bones!!
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Honestly not that far off. It’s like a wet bunny without the ears.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
And if the scientists tried hard enough, they could probably figure out the large ears, too – the skull would have slightly stronger muscle attachment points and vasculature openings to support the larger ears … although that still wouldn’t really tell the scientists what shape the large ears were, though. So you might still get a very odd-looking bunny out of it.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their spines are fascinating. They’re designed to store a lot of potential energy and release it in short bursts.
Rabbits can fuckin’ move, and the biomechanics behind why is absolutely enthralling.
MML@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If you pick them up incorrectly they can fracture their own spine with those kicks
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yet they’re very fragile (the spine) sadly. Same with Guinea pigs.
khanas1f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Explains the way they fuck
MrChewy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just in case though… let’s prepare the holy hand granade… juuuuust in case…
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But to which number you have to count?
kofe@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Three shall be the numba. No more, no less
ThoGot@feddit.org 1 day ago
I mean hares basically look like the sketch (plus ears)
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This has always been the one thing that has always bug me with the creation of dinosaurs in book, tv, movies etc. If you look at the skulls of hippos or elephants, they look far different than the actual living animal.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They don’t just look at the bone structure.
architectonas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Artist/authors John Conway and C. M. Kosemen have a book called All Yesterdays about this subject.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
He’s also got a very interesting book called All Tomorrows
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
raman_klogius@ani.social 1 day ago
All Todays
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
I go back to All Tomorrows every now and then. It’s weird.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just to add context, there is a good book called All Yesterdays about how earlier assumptions of dinosaur appearances based on fossil records have been challenged over time by new evidence. A lot of the artists who develop visual recreations of dinosaurs are often (knowingly or unknowingly) working under trends of what they believe dinosaurs are supposed to look like. But the bones alone aren’t always the best reference to use to base appearance off of, because very little trace of soft tissue exists in the fossil record, and that can often contain the most iconic aspects of a species.
So just to riff on that idea, the book contains a section called “All Todays” in which artists take modern animal skeletons we are familiar with and recreate them as if they were dinosaurs. So you end up with these gaunt creatures that are missing distinct features like ears, noses, fur/features, and coloration.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
@pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org this doesn’t alarm you?
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
No, it alerts me
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I thought the bun is the one who is alert, and you’re just notified?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No room for wings? What if they found them elsewhere and placed them thinking this were a flying mammal?
spacegoat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is something that AI may actually be useful for
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
How so? The current version already incorporates all the known data from the fossils. We need more data not more interpretation of it, afaik.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
we used to have bunnies and ducks and one time we were cleaning up the bunny place and transferred rabbits to a nearby coop. The ducks gathered around it and started quacking at bunnies in this bully manner the ducks do - and then one of the ducks stuck their head into the coop and mama bunny fucked up this motherfucker and turned the coop upside down in the process. that duck got the scarface nickname as a result.