• guy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a serious issue with our perception of dinosaurs though. So many animals that look completely different to one another nowadays have quite similar skeletons. You really can’t be too sure about fat distribution, muscles, cartilage, skin features, colours, textures in fossils.

    Dinosaurs are traditionally represented in drab colours, with skin placed upon the skeleton with a process known as “shrink wrapping”, tightly attaching the skin to the frame. But many animals that we know now really don’t work like that.