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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27837871
The artist’s impression would more accurately convey the danger of hippos though.
Phat lizards
Jurathicc park.
I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to “imagine” the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.
Any which way they go with it would be a guess based on limited information. They’re most likely going to be wrong, and if they were exactly right, we wouldn’t know it.
Honestly they should probably do like 2-3 potential pictures side by side so readers are aware of the uncertainty.
T-Rex probably had lips
T-rex was probably a chonky feathered birb.
Like this?
Yes. How fucking embarrassing would it be for the first artist to set the standard of the t-rex as this intimidating best only for into look like a phat chicken…
To be fair it’s a chicken which is 12 meters tall, if you’ve ever seen chickens killing and eating bugs it seems cute but if they were that big they would not be cute at all, it would be terrifying. Little birds are only cute and unintimidating because they’re small.