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minus-squaremuhyb@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down4·1 year agoJust looking at the skeleton, we would reconstruct a lot of thing wrong. Camel: Platypus: Seal: Elephant:
minus-squareTheSambassador@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoThis seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.
minus-squareMeron35@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThis was already done in “All Todays,” which features depictions of modern animals as distant-future paleontologists might reconstruct them, given just skeletal remains. Example of Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino: ‘All Todays’ Explained - https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2020/09/16/all-todays.html
minus-squaremuhyb@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThank you for sharing this. It’s interesting.
Just looking at the skeleton, we would reconstruct a lot of thing wrong.
Camel:
Platypus:
Seal:
Elephant:
This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.
This was already done in “All Todays,” which features depictions of modern animals as distant-future paleontologists might reconstruct them, given just skeletal remains.
Example of Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino:
‘All Todays’ Explained - https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2020/09/16/all-todays.html
Thank you for sharing this. It’s interesting.