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"Born"? Mammalphile...

[โ€“] negativenull@piefed.world 18 points 1 day ago

and 95% of those in the large book are beetles
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[โ€“] cattywampas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It saddens me that some dinosaurs probably had gregarious colors and fleshy structures that we'll never know about.

[โ€“] scytale@piefed.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Right? I imagine they actually looked less frightening/aggressive than the skin-over-bones depictions we have.

[โ€“] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

If we didn't have swans and found their fossils and used the same techniques, they'd look like this.

shudder

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/

Chubby mega murder chickens

[โ€“] grozzle@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is that Kavanagh from Stargate Atlantis?

[โ€“] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck Kavanagh, all my homies hate Kavanagh