Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1747/
Since birds are dinosaurs and have all kinds of specialized behaviors and non-fossilizing traits like specialized feathers, I assume the big dinosaurs had all kinds of wacky shenanigans and non-fossilizing soft tissues too.
Hippos smile like on the right, but will tear you to shreds like in the middle.
Well, no. The one in the middle would do it because he wanted to eat you. The hippo is a vegetarian who would do it for the sheer joy of killing.
This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit
They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.
Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.
Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing
Science is a process. Just because it’s improved today doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
It could be that all of the lifeforms the aliens have ever seen had that shrink-wrapped look, so they’d have no reason to look for muscle attachments
Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.
Honestly it would be a more accurate portrayal of how vicious hippos actually are. I think on this one, nature is just fucking with us by making hippos look that way.
Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids…
Fixed
So you’re saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)
I lay breakfast for the mean apes.
the ferocious earth animal known as hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly
I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals
Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models
Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee
I’ve always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?
If they’re in a zoo, they cut them off because they’re basically six-8 daggers and hippos are freaking mean.
Here’s a reasonable link, but yes they also wear down in the wild.
He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day
