Thread 5054195

Only someone with extremely low knowledge of anatomy would make a comment like that. A spine reflects the connective tissue, particularly muscular tissue, very well. Note the extremely wide transverse process on each vertebra - this is indicative of at least some width to the tail.

There have been countless dinosaurs samples discovered with feathers, stop coping.

>>5054205
This, with enough practice you can even recreate an image of someone's unique facial structure just from a pic of a skull.
The software they use to make it will make the image look weird but they almost always get it right.
And it's not even a big lab studying the skull or whatever, usually it's just one guy with photoshop esque software.

they'd be able to look at the DNA and skeletal system to recognize that it is a mammal and rodent, then work back to at least fill in details

i refuse to think

>>5054243
I'm pretty sure you still need context clues like the local population you're dealing with to make such reconstruction, Hell, we can't be 100% sure about gender of bones unless we know the average measures of the people involved, and some bones like ribs and femurs are practically useless.

>>5054195 (OP)
he cute

>>5054323
>some bones like ribs and femurs are practically useless.
Women have more ribs cuz Holly Bibble said so. She was my third year teacher.

>>5054195 (OP)
It weird when people think that we don't learn from making mistakes.

>>5054195 (OP)
The tail would probably leave impressions on rock depending on how well preserved it is

>>5054332
Now do a hippo

>>5054205
The transverse vertebra only tell the animal moved his tail up and down. It would come down to speculation whether their tails were flat, at what end were flat, what they used it for etc. Most likely they would assume they did some elaborate social ritual like playing bongos on the water with them.

>>5054410
Lol sure buddy

>>5054495
Now do a hippo.

>>5054195 (OP)
Dawww. Bobr wants uppies.

Holy accuracy now THIS is like a real animal. None of that awesomebro jurassic park nonsense

>>5054195 (OP)
The entire body form of a velociraptor can be seen. And it's a theropod so it has many lineage.

>>5054328
You, too?
Although he was by 11th grade teacher.
Religious education, not biology, mind you.

>>5054410
Maybe it's just me but I always felt like the original image falsely implies that hippos don't have a weird head shape and giant fucking tusks that stick out of their mouth.

>>5054661
Cope. Feathers are basal to archosaurs.

>>5054195 (OP)
wtf why's he flipping me off

>>5054243
Then why are all those jane doe photos so fucked up

>>5054659
mm popcorn...

>>5054332
>>5054661
Why do modern paleoartists keep putting flabby bits on crocodilians? They’re not mammals, the double chin is unnecessary

>>5054323
Won't the pelvis tell you the gender no matter what? Isn't it shaped completely differently on women and men?

>>5055331
Green

Do you have enough creative grit to make a Sunfish?

>>5055405
I would be conservative (as you should always be when reconstructing an extinct animal) and do something like this.
I would be wrong, but because it is too skinny. Not because i made shit up

>>5054195 (OP)
they usually tell how things like this would look from skin impressions left behind on fossils+ skeletons.

Skin impressions are the rarest kind of fossils but this is mostly how we find out the more specific details of how things looked.

>>5054195 (OP)
Wouldn't the tail leave a form of indent where it lied?

>>5054410
Actual meme.
Animal science is absolutely fucking retarded it’s a field full of people who sit behind desks and look at pictures and read books and barely actually interact with the animals without a fucking protection squad surrounding them and some sort of noose pole thing because they live in perpetual fear of the things they study from afar.
All of the bone prediction science is purely based on circlejerk self affirmations. Even anons who sound right in this thread are just spouting some shit they read in a book from some other asshole who never even actually saw the animal he was writing about in real life.
Would aliens do better? Probably not, I bet their animal scientists are just as ignorant and reclusive as ours.

>>5056352
There's no such thing as aliens. God created the universe and centered it around Earth. Accept Jesus into your life and be saved.

>>5054195 (OP)
Nigga dont know about Castorocauda mesozoic mammal literally named beaver tail baka

>>5056352
the person who made that image is a retard who has no idea how things work and now it's used by even more retards who believe it's true.

>>5056352
All mammals have cheeks and lips and eyelids. You can tell where muscles go from their anchor points. This image was created by a midwit who doesn't know that you can reconstruct animals from their closest relatives.

>>5056891
>All mammals have cheeks and lips and eyelids
just like dinosaurs (except for the ones with beaks instead of lips)
>You can tell where muscles go from their anchor points
just like dinosaurs

and yet...

>>5055347
Nope, the number of times I've read an old cold case being resolved that the gender was wrong on ends up being way too high.
It's generally someone who went missing close by as well but the doe profile is messed up completely. Gender/age completely wrong

>>5054359
you didn't even read his post correctly.

>>5054195 (OP)
I love beavers so much bros

>>5054195 (OP)
they had feathers and were trans

>>5057047
Let him go! He needs to dam!

The tail itself would leave a mark in the fossil.