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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 67 points 11 months ago

Fake

They would definitely assume a tail because we have the bone there.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 44 points 11 months ago

And there is no indication of ears or whiskers. This meme is a furrys fantasy.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 32 points 11 months ago

The joke is that it's basing human apperance on other rodents. So this is definitely missing a tail.

[-] mobius_slip@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

There's also no reason they would think that we had claws.

This is baseless furry propaganda.

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Smh when science community cant read. It explicitly states that they found no surviving hominids and the only mammal The closest thing they found to a human was a mouse. So they took a human skeleton and gave it mouse features because we're both mammals so clearly we are the same.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

But isn't the bone to short to be a tail?

[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 61 points 11 months ago

Ears are wrong since they suggest directional ears, but we don't have the muscle, or critically the ligament attachment points on the skull, for that.

As far as claws go, again, no marks of strong cartilege / ligament / bed on the fingers and toes that would indicate functional claws.

Nipples: the smoking gun would be a pregnant woman or an infant, but theyd be able to see that unlike rodents, humans arent having more than two babies at a time outside of extremely rare cases, more than two babies just dont have room to fully gestate, so theyd likely cut that number down.

Fur: the sheer amount of plastic clothing we've generated will put that to rest fast.

Whiskers: There would be ligament attachment marks on the skull where the muscles used to move them would have been. Also maybe blood vessel/neuron marks on the bones.

Also the almost complete lack of snout would indicate heavy hand usage and not diving into things headfirst like rodents and cats have to.

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago

May I introduce you to basically any interpretation of what dinosaurs looked like, ever (which is what this joke is about)?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes

[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yup, and I am aware how outdated that artwork is. Thats where I pulled that analysis from.

I'd suggest Raptor Chatter and Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong on youtube.

[-] Beryl@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Whiskers don't make sense on a creature that doesn't walk on all 4 anyway. They are only useful if they have a chance to contact something in front of you before the rest of your body.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

especially when the animal traveled upright on two legs, which it seemed likely to have done when climbing or scouting for prey

i.e. on all fours the rest of the time

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

No need to bring your mom into this

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 17 points 11 months ago

SIX nipples? Damn it's gonna be expensive when I head back to the piercing shop.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 11 months ago

"I want a fur coat"

"Isn't that cruelty to animals?"

"You misunderstand"

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, that's basically what we do when we study ancient hominids.

[-] panned_cakes@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

~~alien~~ furry reproduction

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, I know a couple of guys that aren't that far off this.

[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Very unlikely because we have sculptures and remains at pompei and similar.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Those remain to be discovered by the alien archaeologists. They may be space-faring extra-terrestrials, but they're not great at their job tbh.

[-] aiden@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Aliens finding this image in the future: these humans are weird, imagining how we think and stuff

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