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• StellarExtract@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look how they massacred my boy

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait is this real lol

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, you kinda can’t know what fossils looked like based on the skeleton. What everyone thinks dinosaurs look like is vastly different from what they most likely looked like.

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    • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, we can’t know everything, but in the last couple of decades we’ve learned how to derive quite a bit about an animal from a fossil. Things like where muscles attach let us figure out the muscle structure, the size and structure of bones yields hints to what and where an organism’s weight was, and from the little nubs on the bones we can tell where feathers are. And all of that can come together and form a decent picture of what that animal’s behavior was. That’s just the stuff I’m aware of as a casual, I’m sure there’s tons more clues in fossils that I’m not aware of.

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes and no. Its not uncommon to make extreme predictions just for the sake of “What if?”. Sometimes it actually helps us find stuff out, sense this is all guess and check anyway.

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    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok but has this actually been proposed by an archeologist in accordance with the evidence we have? Is this a possible recreation or has it in effect already been disproven with what we know?

      There’s a big difference between “in 2024 an archeologist asked an artist to paint this” and “someone on ticktock ai generated this”.

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The hind legs? No way.

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that part seems hard to believe.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    from what i know of spinosaurus this has to be one of those semi-tongue-in-cheek depictions that show something clearly made up yet way more sensible than early paleoart, to make a point about how we should keep an open mind and that these animals PROBABLY ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE ANIMALS

    like the fluffy sparrow-looking T.rex, it almost certainly didn’t look like this but it’s a much better assumption than featherless scaly monsters.
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• RenLinwood@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How is this nerfed? It looks like if an elephant seal was even more gigantic and a carnivore, which is to say absolutely terrifying

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So just more gigantic? It’s a terrifying carnivore anyway, right?

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    • RenLinwood@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait what do elephant seals eat? I was thinking they were like elephants and ate kelp &etc

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well tbh those things were hugely overpowered and due a nerf. We’ll see what the next update brings.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All other bits are now DLC.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like something out of All Yesterdays or All Tomorrows

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Yesterdays?wprov=sfla1

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