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Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by popsie on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:01AM (#27818262)
This is wildly inaccurate to the point that I would consider asking for this list to be taken down.

We know a lot about how the muscles sits on bone, how different bone density and shapes affect strength and thus possible uses. We can also draw a lot from reptiles and living dinosaurs (birds) by looking at analogous structures that are widely present in existing animals.

This sort of news has been going around the Brazilian internet for quite a while to the point that a fairly well known paleontologist and science communication showed the process of how this reconstruction would be made (video, in portuguese: https://youtu.be/8TPPFcZpCbA)

Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by popsie on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:14AM (#27818330)
Since there's a hippo in the article as well, here are some major points:

- From the teeth shape and abrasion patterns we can tell that this was a herbivorous animal.

- Muscle attachment points intm the jaw and huge concave regions suggests large and powerful jaw muscles, so the hollow skinny picture in the article is not viable.

- Being a herbivore with powerful jaw muscles, this animal would need to chew on food a lot. Without cheeks, food would fall out as the animal chews, so it clearly has cheeks.

- Eyew need to fit in the ocular orbit, so they're not tint dots, they're large eyes.

- if we knew any surviving mammal, we would know this animal probably had eyelids (all mammals do).

- This head is huge and heavy, so we'll need a bunch of muscles to keep it up, so this animal has a chunky neck as well.

You can see what the reconstruction would look like with this info at ~40 minutes into the video.

Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by zabzonk on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:24AM (#27821347)
> This is wildly inaccurate to the point that I would consider asking for this list to be taken down.

It's the Daily Mail - wild inaccuracy goes without saying.

Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:45PM (#27824597)
Actually I’m surprised to see anything from the daily Mail posted here. I would have guessed it was on a block list.
Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by zabzonk on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:26PM (#27825137)
Well, let's not go nuts. It is almost certainly the worst newspaper in the world, read only by the racist tubs of lard seen capering around Wembley at the weekend. But censorship is even worse.
Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by the_only_law on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:24PM (#27825841)
It may not be true, but I swear there’s been an uptick in submissions from tabloid-like sites in the past year.
Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by msrenee on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:28PM (#27847283)
Why, when trying to determine what an ancient reptile looked like, would you use mammal species for all your references? Just in my experience, reptiles tend to have fat deposits in different configurations to mammals.