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minus-square🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·25 days agomost animals have skin over they bones, wonder why they saw a wierd skull and decided that this fish has no skin on its head
minus-square🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·25 days agostill it isn’t the bone that’s on the outside but even if we had a vertebrate fossil that had parts of their endoskeleton exposed, it’s so rare that it’s safe to assume it wasn’t. imma bet the thagomiser was covered with tissues, hardened skin, ketarin, not just naked bone.
minus-squareRedjard@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days ago still it isn’t the bone that’s on the outside That’s what I mean. Skin that gives color but mostly preserves the look of the bone plates, with gaps remaining visible
minus-square🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoThat is fair, but I don’t think the edges of the bones would be visible, look at the turtle skeleton for example. Sadly we will never know how it really looked, we just get to be less wrong about how badly we draw it.
most animals have skin over they bones, wonder why they saw a wierd skull and decided that this fish has no skin on its head
could be like turtle shells
still it isn’t the bone that’s on the outside
but even if we had a vertebrate fossil that had parts of their endoskeleton exposed, it’s so rare that it’s safe to assume it wasn’t.
imma bet the thagomiser was covered with tissues, hardened skin, ketarin, not just naked bone.
That’s what I mean. Skin that gives color but mostly preserves the look of the bone plates, with gaps remaining visible
That is fair, but I don’t think the edges of the bones would be visible, look at the turtle skeleton for example.
Sadly we will never know how it really looked, we just get to be less wrong about how badly we draw it.