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.
do you think someone just actually whipped up a 3d model just for a meme?
That would be dishonest, I'm pretty sure they sourced that from aliens.
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.
The whole body doesn't match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.
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.
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.
I'm not sure what a chicken would look like with a tail like that though.
Lagomorph sounds way cooler than it is too.
Has anyone actually tried representing dinosaurs like fluffy (or very feathery) animals?
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Most dinosaur recreations now just go "what would a bird with this skeleton look like?"
A 15' chicken with teeth would be terrifying.
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.
I've also come across these. There's a lot we don't know, all of these could be entirely wrong.
Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?
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.)
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I always wondered What if all dinosaurs were big furry balls with large ears...
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.
Love me some shrink wrap in my paleo art. The ones depicting baboons are especially nightmarish.
Hippos are mine.
I didn't realize rabbits had such long tailbones.
That rabbit's dynamite!
It's got a vicious streak a mile wide!
Look at the bones!
We've never been very good at this either
Fuck me the baboon image was serious nightmare fuel.
Can you imagine if we somehow were able to get 100% accurate images of dinosaurs (with the feathers... they were birds, not reptiles, and warm blooded, too) and the T-rex chirped and kinda looked like a giant chicken?
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