• traches@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

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      6 months ago

      They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.

      Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.

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        6 months ago

        Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

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          6 months ago

          It could be that all of the lifeforms the aliens have ever seen had that shrink-wrapped look, so they’d have no reason to look for muscle attachments