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    602 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.

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      352 months ago

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

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        352 months ago

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

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        42 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