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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.

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)