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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

not wrong.

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Falcon 4 years ago

Those teeth on the skull look disturbing af tho.

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Bored Panda reached out to Ashley Mason-Burns-Meerschaert, the director of education at Skeletons: Museum of Osteology, who told us more about these incredible bones. It turns out, the vertebrates with the most bones in their skulls are bony fish, which can have over 100 in their skulls.

Although skulls from different species might look similar, there will be slight differences. Ashley said that “some species of shrews and rodents can only be identified by looking at dental variations under a microscope.”

There is also some skull variation between individuals of the same species and also between males and females, which scientists refer to as “sexual dimorphism.”

Ashley said that animals' skulls can change over time for various reasons, like becoming more adapted to the environment, changing due to animals' diet, or because of injuries sustained over their lifetime.

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Titas Burinskas 4 years ago

Hippopotamuses are underrated in terms of how horrifyingly powerful they are.

223points

Cori 4 years ago

No kidding! They are one of the most deadly animals in Africa.

28points

Podunkus 4 years ago

😁 And yet... 3D5EDCEC-D...5-jpeg.jpg

20points

Bunzilla 4 years ago

I've been waiting for this comment my whole life, get ready for a rant: YES THEY ARE!!! a hippopatumos (sorry can't spell) can run faster than you on land, swim faster than you on water, and their jaws can crush you in a second. If there's anything you should be scared of, IT"S A HIPPOPATUMUS.

9points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

And outrageously agressive

8points

Nancy Bernard 4 years ago

They are also the most dangerous animal in Africa

4points

Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago

The one animal safari guides fear, and say are the most dangerous.

3points

Kitten Dog Mom 2 years ago

But he's smiling!

1point

Thomas Bentley 10 months ago

oh look, they are funny and fat. nope, that is muscle, they are so dense they run under water instead of swimming.

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Bizianka 4 years ago

Hippos are among the deadliest animals, so pretty accurate

7points

Paizleypie 4 years ago

That hippo looks like it wants a kiss.

5points

Evripidou Maria 4 years ago

reminds me of the "skin wrapping" term and why we could be illustrating dinosaurs completely wrong

3points

meepcat 4 years ago

See tumblr posts ...T Rexes could have been chub chonks

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Astrólogo Olavo de Carvalho 3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPPFcZpCbA

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Aimee Simmons 4 years ago

The reality is much more terrifying in person. XD

2points

Slinkman 4 years ago

It so dumb looking, but don't mess with this beast.

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Iapetos 4 years ago

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Paul Brown 1 year ago

Hippocampus, one of the most deadly animals there is.

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Heather Vandegrift 2 years ago

They got the true nature of the animal right, so it's outside would match the inside

1point

Bolovo de Carvalho 3 years ago

paleontolo...5c8ebd.png

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Bolovo de Carvalho 3 years ago

If you can tank the portuguese simultaneous translation, check out: https://youtu.be/8TPPFcZpCbA

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Joran Quinten 4 years ago

True form hippopotamus

1point

Carol Kalobius 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjJYRmslAH0

1point

Phi 4 years ago

Thanks for that! :D

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An Honest Merchant 4 years ago

OK tbf this one is just as terrifying irl

1point

Axes 11 months ago

Do'nt be fooled, it may look cute, but this is THE most dangerous animal in africa, even deadlier than lions!

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Axes 11 months ago

Do'ny be fooled! the hippopotamus may look cute, but it is THE most dangerous animal in africa, even deadlier than lions!

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siddiqa rizwan 1 year ago

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Shelly Graham 1 year ago

They're the deadliest land mammal in the world. 500+ death's a year in Africa!

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No Name 1 year ago

Ironically the middle picture captures their spirit better.

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Joshua Bateman 1 year ago

carnivore hippo?

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Lindsey Rose 2 years ago

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Lindsey Rose 2 years ago

I know bcuz I have a scar to prove ot

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Sophia Ramsey 2 years ago

that actually looks sick tho

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Joy 2 years ago

Why do we animate them as cuddly squeaky-voiced blushing cartoons when they're so deadly. We don't do that to dobermans or rattle snakes, so why hippos? Odd.

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Zena Marsh 2 years ago

I like the alien one.

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Aluisio Meneses 3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPPFcZpCbA

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theodd1sout fan 4 years ago

is it motto motto?

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Marlene Ricker 4 years ago

I have to admit I really love hippos. I love their smiling faces and they just look so cuddly. If they weren't so deadly I wouild like one for a pet! LOL

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Lydia Coy 4 years ago

Oop

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Barry Patterson 4 years ago

Fortunately, hippos only eat marbles.

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Me 4 years ago

It's so fat and cute.

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Sinkvenice 4 years ago

Xenomorphs are my spirit animal.

55points

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Slinkman 4 years ago

The majestic Eyelifant

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It’s incredible how much we can tell about an animal just by looking at these bony structures that support and protect soft tissues and organs.

For example, some particular skull features can indicate the nature of an animal. Wired suggests that “Big eye sockets point to a nocturnal lifestyle (big eyes harvest more light).”

Meanwhile, “giant canine teeth indicate a taste for flesh” and “lightweight bone riddled with air pockets is an adaptation for life on the wing.”

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

i 💜orcas

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago (edited)

why is everything supposed to be ferocious but actually so ADORABLE

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Kisses4Katie 4 years ago

No, it would just be displayed in a museum- "look what those mad scientists did to the majestic wolf!"

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Another incredible aspect of skulls is just how complex they truly are. Imagine—a human skull has 22 bones. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, it features 8 cranial bones and 14 facial bones. When a baby is born, the forehead, or frontal, bone is separated in two, but it fuses while growing.

And now let’s take an alligator. This reptilian has around 53 skull bones, which is more than twice what we have. But it's far from the most skull bones found in an animal.

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

THERE IS NO SKULL

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

they're not wrong exactly...

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

"I MUST EAT"

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Wolfowl 4 years ago

Aw shoot, Alphys, you'd better get that DT Extractor back.

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JuJu 4 years ago

Dogma: "...remember: even God has a sense of humor. Just look at the Platypus. Thank you and enjoy the show. P.S. We sincerely apologize to all Platypus enthusiasts out there who are offended by that thoughtless comment about the Platypi. We at View Askew respect the noble Platypus, and it is not our intention to slight these stupid creatures in any way."

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

its a SEAL D:

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

not wrong at all.

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Sabse 4 years ago

What a skull! Looks like an inkblot picture.

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

trees... they have skulls too? :D

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

not fat... just fluffy...

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Ruth Mayfly 4 years ago

Not that different if you ignore the ears and the fur.

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Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

shibe is back

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Rose the Cook 4 years ago

Why are the reconstructions big and ugly? Why are creatures from other planets almost always ugly in films? We have no idea what they would look like so why could they not be attractive or at least presentable.

35points

Daria B 4 years ago

I agree. This is why Star Trek and Star Wars are so good. They value the diversity. Also, in Japanese cartoons they often look cute and fluffy. Or just like us Earthlings.

19points

Anna Kalita 4 years ago

They only look ugly to you because you're earthcentric. Alien creatures look so different because they are, well, alien.

7points

AnnSmithJones 4 years ago

In YOUR opinion they're ugly. Maybe on other galaxies these are considered cute & adorable and OUR animals hideous & ugly. Maybe some random in some intergalactic world is posting this same butt hurt comment on some other forum.

2points

Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

true.

1point

Carlos Cruz Tavio 10 months ago

Maybe they look ugly just because they don't look like anything that lives in our planet. Maybe they don't look ugly to the native species of their own planet. Not everything in the universe must cater to the beauty standards of humans you know?

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Carlos Cruz Tavio 10 months ago

Maybe they just look ugly to us cause they don't look like anything close to our animals, and they shouldn't. Maybe they don't look ugly to the natives of their planet. Not every creature in the universe must cater to the beauty standards of humans you know?

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Yazz Panamix 4 years ago

Usually it has a lot to do with the fact that people are afraid of the unknown, and tend to expect the worst. Kind of a primal instinct that’s in play for our own survival. If we’re scared of it and prepare for the worst, we’re more likely to survive the experience....hence big scary creatures.

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Scratch 4 years ago

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bryguy 4 years ago

Seems like every reconstruction is like 20X the size of the original skull

24points

Hendra Lim 4 years ago

from the leopard gecko to a titan like in the King kong movies? i'll say it's thousands time bigger

5points

Shinobi Shabby 4 years ago

But why? Under what sort of conclusions would they re-create them that way?

11points

Alex Boyd 4 years ago

In other reconstructions like these that I've seen, the assumptions are basically the same as those that are usually when reconstructing what a dinosaur or other fossil animal looked like--basically, that the outline of the body conforms to the outline of the skeleton, that any prominent and mysterious structure was probably defensive/offensive, and that they were dull in color and lacked coverings like feathers or fur.

14points

Lindsay Ameye 4 years ago

In other words dinosaurs must have been fluffy cuties based on their skeletons

8points

mph seti 4 years ago

Some dinosaurs likely were cute and/or fuzzy.

3points

Suzanne Harris 4 years ago

Most if not all tyrannosaurids were feathered, some of them with little stick like feathers. So they range from looking like floofy fluffballs to hairy fluffballs.

0points

Miss Cris 4 years ago

Some had feathers and different cute colours.

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Robert Jarvis 4 years ago

Putting the "alien" bit aside, it's pretty cool to see that the cuter the animal, the more killy teeth it often has!

5points

r-c-rausch 4 years ago

Robert Jarvis like

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Allen John 4 years ago

replace the word "Aliens" with the word "Humans".

5points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

The person who came up with this must have flunked biology and assumes everyone else did too. Wow. Incredibly bad job

4points

Tasha Tilbrook 4 years ago

Kind of makes you wonder how far off base we are with dinosaurs 🦕

4points

Daria B 4 years ago

Turns out.... they were all just a bunch of huge chickens! ♡

5points

logical fallacy 4 years ago

So basically this teaches us the cuteness effect of blubber.

4points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

This could be exactly what we do with dinosaur bones.

3points

Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago

As several others have mentioned, this is why I question the reconstruction of an entire dinosaur based on a handful of fragments- wildly speculative imho.

3points

Cori 4 years ago

These were... amusing? Sort of?

3points

Shelp 4 years ago

Haha, I loved those memes, I'm glad to see them all reunited

3points

Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

💜

3points

Veronica Mp 4 years ago

images of t-rex n raptor probably having wide ears n round cheeks kept popping in my head now

2points

Elizabeth Burns 4 years ago

These are wonderful and so funny! Thank you! :)

2points

rongladney 4 years ago

Elizabeth Burns ?

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Jessica Cole 4 years ago

These are so cool

2points

Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago

This was fun but in most cases they must have been really, really small aliens.

2points

Toasty 4 years ago

Fantastic post! Thanks.

2points

natie marie 4 years ago

Makes you wonder if we have reconstructed dinosaurs wrong...

2points

John Baker 4 years ago

In the past, terribly wrong. Now, not 100% accurate, but probably reasonably close. We know a lot more about dinosaur lifestyles and physiology now than we did in the past, and that can give us clues as to how they looked.

1point

Firework 4 years ago

What if dinosaurs were just giant cats?

1point

Jo Choto 4 years ago

Leaves you wondering how badly wrong we got all the dinosaurs!

1point

Origami Chik3n 4 years ago

This begs the question - how many of the long extinct animals were reconstructed incorrectly, based only on their skeletons, by OUR scientists? Maybe T-Rex was just a big fluffy misunderstood bunny?

1point

Lulu Zeldis 4 years ago

i isagree with some of these but ha ha ha these HILARIOUS

1point

Chris DiFonso 4 years ago

I wouldn't have been able to guess very many of these animals based on the photos of the skulls. Very amazing.

1point

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

Now imagine the dinosaur skulls in a museum.

1point

Michelle 4 years ago

So this was satire and not meant to be serious, right? Um... right?

1point

K Witmer 4 years ago

It's supposed to be funny not taken literally and a satirical message on how we have no idea what dinosaurs look like from their skulls. However people that study this have given their best very educated guess so I'm not downplaying the experts in my comment.

1point

Suzanne Harris 4 years ago

100 years ago, the prevailing idea was to stick the bones together and make as sensational of a "thing" as possible. Now it's done based on actual physical markings on the bones plus CAD for confirmation that the organism would actually be able to move if constructed in such a fashion. Look at the redo of the spinosaurus for a good one.

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stripper dream 4 years ago

So in my head, I'm just imagining the alien made ones are just as small as the skull or skeleton would allow.

1point

Susanne B 2 years ago

I cannot help feeling, that this is a comment to our pictures of dinosaurs

0points

Nancy Labarre 3 years ago

get this shirt here>>>>https://diptostee.us/fuckyourfeelings mockup-2-6...4c05b4.jpg

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Marilyn Bojanowski 4 years ago

This has helped me realize two things: 1) Animals in reality are much more adorable than in fiction 2) Adorable animals are terrifying inside!

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Gale Christensen 4 years ago

Give me a break. No alien intelligence that has the capabilities to travel here and look at these skulls, is going to be stupid enough to "reconstruct" ONLY the most popular human sci-fi creatures from them. Only a ditzy human with too much time on their hands and a ridiculous penchant for sci-fi would "reconstruct" them like that.

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Tahani 4 years ago

So just how wrong could we be in the reconstructions of some dinosaurs???????

0points

Caroline Driver 4 years ago

My zoology teacher used to say that if there were no elephants still alive today, but we found mammoth skulls, we'd wonder how on earth they ate. Would we have reconstructed a tentacle nose?

0points

Jace 4 years ago

The “reconstructions” are just random internet monster/alien photos from movies and games, etc. There’s often very little resemblance at all. What would have been more interesting is discussion about how we likely very wrongly visualize extinct animals (like dinosaurs). In fact, that’s likely the real inspiration behind this “article’s” source material. This article is b******t, as usual.

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Kim 4 years ago

These designs scream HUMAN CREATION all over them. Dark, destructive, demonic, etc. First of all, aliens aren’t one species. There are many, just as different from each other as they are to humans. Most of them are highly intelligent beings who would NEVER think in the dark and destructive way humans are thinking. NEVER!!

0points

Brent Hollett 4 years ago

Apparently, fur is not a concept that any alien has ever discovered... Also, apparently humans are confused by fur.

0points

Hanni 4 years ago

Most of these are more like: How can we make up a fantasy creature with minimum similarity to the displayed skull.

0points

David Wong 4 years ago

The alien would reconstruct the animal in a futuristic evolution.

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Kitty Fenerty 4 years ago

Well, that’s 3 minutes of my life completely wasted. Did a 7 year old make this article? Very, very poor & disappointing.

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Bob Russick 4 years ago

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Rose the Cook 4 years ago

35points

Daria B 4 years ago

I agree. This is why Star Trek and Star Wars are so good. They value the diversity. Also, in Japanese cartoons they often look cute and fluffy. Or just like us Earthlings.

19points

Anna Kalita 4 years ago

They only look ugly to you because you're earthcentric. Alien creatures look so different because they are, well, alien.

7points

AnnSmithJones 4 years ago

2points

Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

true.

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Carlos Cruz Tavio 10 months ago

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Carlos Cruz Tavio 10 months ago

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Yazz Panamix 4 years ago

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bryguy 4 years ago

Seems like every reconstruction is like 20X the size of the original skull

24points

Hendra Lim 4 years ago

from the leopard gecko to a titan like in the King kong movies? i'll say it's thousands time bigger

5points

Shinobi Shabby 4 years ago

But why? Under what sort of conclusions would they re-create them that way?

11points

Alex Boyd 4 years ago

14points

Lindsay Ameye 4 years ago

In other words dinosaurs must have been fluffy cuties based on their skeletons

8points

mph seti 4 years ago

Some dinosaurs likely were cute and/or fuzzy.

3points

Suzanne Harris 4 years ago

Most if not all tyrannosaurids were feathered, some of them with little stick like feathers. So they range from looking like floofy fluffballs to hairy fluffballs.

0points

Miss Cris 4 years ago

Some had feathers and different cute colours.

0points

Robert Jarvis 4 years ago

Putting the "alien" bit aside, it's pretty cool to see that the cuter the animal, the more killy teeth it often has!

5points

r-c-rausch 4 years ago

Robert Jarvis like

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Allen John 4 years ago

replace the word "Aliens" with the word "Humans".

5points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

The person who came up with this must have flunked biology and assumes everyone else did too. Wow. Incredibly bad job

4points

Tasha Tilbrook 4 years ago

Kind of makes you wonder how far off base we are with dinosaurs 🦕

4points

Daria B 4 years ago

Turns out.... they were all just a bunch of huge chickens! ♡

5points

logical fallacy 4 years ago

So basically this teaches us the cuteness effect of blubber.

4points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

This could be exactly what we do with dinosaur bones.

3points

Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago

As several others have mentioned, this is why I question the reconstruction of an entire dinosaur based on a handful of fragments- wildly speculative imho.

3points

Cori 4 years ago

These were... amusing? Sort of?

3points

Shelp 4 years ago

Haha, I loved those memes, I'm glad to see them all reunited

3points

Fernleaf6505 4 years ago

💜

3points

Veronica Mp 4 years ago

images of t-rex n raptor probably having wide ears n round cheeks kept popping in my head now

2points

Elizabeth Burns 4 years ago

These are wonderful and so funny! Thank you! :)

2points

rongladney 4 years ago

Elizabeth Burns ?

0points

Jessica Cole 4 years ago

These are so cool

2points

Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago

This was fun but in most cases they must have been really, really small aliens.

2points

Toasty 4 years ago

Fantastic post! Thanks.

2points

natie marie 4 years ago

Makes you wonder if we have reconstructed dinosaurs wrong...

2points

John Baker 4 years ago

1point

Firework 4 years ago

What if dinosaurs were just giant cats?

1point

Jo Choto 4 years ago

Leaves you wondering how badly wrong we got all the dinosaurs!

1point

Origami Chik3n 4 years ago

This begs the question - how many of the long extinct animals were reconstructed incorrectly, based only on their skeletons, by OUR scientists? Maybe T-Rex was just a big fluffy misunderstood bunny?

1point

Lulu Zeldis 4 years ago

i isagree with some of these but ha ha ha these HILARIOUS

1point

Chris DiFonso 4 years ago

I wouldn't have been able to guess very many of these animals based on the photos of the skulls. Very amazing.

1point

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

Now imagine the dinosaur skulls in a museum.

1point

Michelle 4 years ago

So this was satire and not meant to be serious, right? Um... right?

1point

K Witmer 4 years ago

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Suzanne Harris 4 years ago

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