• bufalo1973
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    76 months ago

    Those are images made from the data recovered from their fossils. I guess they didn’t look like that at all. If the same process was done with human skeletons we’d have a very good laugh.

    • @[email protected]
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      236 months ago

      Those are trilobites, part of the arthropod phylum. They have exoskeletons (i.e no inner bones), so they would probably look quite a lot like their fossils. Comparing them to vertebrates like humans (or dinosaurs, or whatever) in this context makes no sense.

      • bufalo1973
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        06 months ago

        And an exoskeleton can’t have anything covering it because… ?

        • @WoahWoah
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          176 months ago

          Because that’s what the “exo” part means.