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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago

Just looking at the skeleton, we would reconstruct a lot of thing wrong.

Camel:

Platypus:

Seal:

Elephant:

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This was already done in "All Todays," which features depictions of modern animals as distant-future paleontologists might reconstruct them, given just skeletal remains.

Example of Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino:

'All Todays' Explained - https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2020/09/16/all-todays.html

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting.

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