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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

Camel:

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Platypus:

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Seal:

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Elephant:

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[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks 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 0 points 2 weeks 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:

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