Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th...
by popsie on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:14AM
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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.
- 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.