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[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 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.

[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 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.