• @[email protected]
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      517 months ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    767 months ago

    dinosaurs may have had big honkers there’s simply no way to know whether or not they had big mommy milkers the soft tissue of the gazongas is not preserved in the fossil record experts are divided on the question of whether dinosaurs had huge jugs each outcome is equally likely there is a fifty percent chance that every dinosaur was blessed with real big hoohas

    • @spittingimage
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      417 months ago

      Normally I’m not on board with the perversity of the modern internet, but there’s something noble in what you’re doing.

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        Are… uh… furries, but with scales… a thing?

        Almost afraid to ask.

        If not… I imagine they’re about to be.

    • aname
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      107 months ago

      Dinosaurs were not mammals, so they did not have huge boobs, at least in a sense of mammary glands.

      Of course, those non-avian dinosaurs that died could have had some kinky sexual organs but non of the bird species we know of has huge mammary glands so avian dinosaurs most likely did not have either.

    • @[email protected]
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      367 months ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    537 months ago

    This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

    • @[email protected]
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      577 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        347 months ago

        Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

        • @Blue_Morpho
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          Science is a process. Just because it’s improved today doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

        • @Sigh_Bafanada
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          47 months ago

          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

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    237 months ago

    So you’re saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)

      • @QuadratureSurfer
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        197 months ago

        Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        Would you rather fight 1 T. Rex-sized duck or 100 duck-sized T. Rexes?

        • @TheRedSpade
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          100 duck sized t. rexes, and it’s not even close. Grab a couple of the little bastards by the neck and start swinging until they’re all dead. The big boy would crush you with one bite. This also applies to the question that yours was likely inspired by.

    • Dojan
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      77 months ago

      I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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    the ferocious earth animal known as hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly

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    147 months ago

    Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models

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    67 months ago

    I’ve always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?

    • FuglyDuck
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      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.

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    47 months ago

    He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day