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Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by yakubin on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:54AM (#27820984)
> He believes Hollywood is to blame for giving dinosaurs their skeletal 'monster' image.

I don't think most dinosaurs are seen as monsters. When it comes to public relations "monsters", I think it's mostly T-Rex, and usually it isn't portrayed as skeletal. Depictions of most dinosaurs make them look cute.

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Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by edflsafoiewq on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:52AM (#27821709)
It's older than Hollywood. Early attempts to rationalize geological time with Genesis located dinosaurs in a pre-Adamic world of eternal darkness.

Really interesting article about this:

Terrible lizards and the wrath of God: How 19th century Christianity and Romanticism affected visual representations of dinosaurs and our perceptions of the ancient world: https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanf...

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Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:38PM (#27823773)
Pagan big reptiles weren't nice either, were they? Tiamat, Nidhogg, Jormungandr, Hydra, Fafnir.
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Re:What modern animals would look like if we drew them in th... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:43AM (#27822357)
That certainly squares with H.P. Lovecraft's "Antediluvian horrors".
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