• traches@sh.itjust.works
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    2 年前

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

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      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.