Holy shit, this is exactly this book:
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
There was a great podcast that pointed me to it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/welcome-to-jurassic-art-redux/transcript/
I think that’s it. I’ve already done more searching than I intended to get the name of the book. You’re on your own.
I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid because I loved dinos. This book speaks to me.
An interesting book on why many dinosaur depictions are wrong and what they may have looked like.
The hippos teeth peg it as a mostly vegetation, so depictions would favor that line.I want to take it one step further.
And no, I don’t care if there’s good reason to believe that Tyrannosaurs weren’t fluffy like owls, I still want a decent artist’s depiction of a T. rex with owl-level fluff.
A giant murder sparrow would be horrifying as fuck, ngl.
Horrifying AND cuddly.
They might’ve really had feathers! It’s funny how Jurassic Park colors our perception
Hippos will absolutely fuck you up, though.
Yeah pic 2 is just an artistic depiction of their inner selves
Inside all of us there are two hippos…
Hey, that’s not fair, I’ve really been trying to lose weight.
And it shows! You look like just 1.8 hippos now!
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It’s like that is the hippo’s Slayer form from Baldur’s Gate 2.
But they have a Bruce-Banner-esque secret… they are always the Slayer.
Fun fact, the reason some dinosaurs are depicted with lips is because the asymetrical wear on their teeth doesn’t match with modern equivalent’s that have exposed teeth, meaning they had “labial scale” lips.
Image owned by Mark P. Witton
Hippos are so friend shaped it’s unfair.
I mean, look at this guy!
The reason for the stretched skin look for dinosaurs initially is because of the comparison to lizards, who do frequently have their skin stretched on their bones except in a few places. Unfortunately things like that have momentum, so changing it takes even longer than it took to catch on.
I’m still pissed at Jurassic World cowardly going with the old designs when they could have shown the current knowledge, much like the original movie has.
I haven’t watched Jurassic World, but wasn’t that kinda explained with the frog DNA? I heard something to that effect. Meaning that they knew they weren’t like the original animals.
yes, henry wu even says something along the lines of that.
Yeah, that’s not even remotely relevant to what I was talking about.
Does that hippo have a beard?
It has a badly shaven mustache, so the beard is likely
