![]() ![]() r/DinosaurDrawings was banned by reddit for spam o_Oīone -vs- Stone: How to Tell the Difference R/Megafauna Definitely a link to Megafauna! So generally, anything dinosaur-related is welcomed here, including some things which are definitely not dinosaurs (like a dimetrodon) but sometimes excluding things that ARE definitely dinosaurs ( this is a SFW sub).Ĭomments that are not about dinosaurs don't belong here, regardless of context. We have always allowed pterosaurs and pliosaurs, and even sometimes something that isn't one of those (like a synapsid). It sounds super obvious, but we need to just come out and say it, because we also allow a tiny bit of wiggle room. That being said, come on in and share in the wonderful world of Dinosaurs and Paleontology! Please don't downvote well written comments just because you don't agree with the opinion. This is a welcoming place and a place of scientific discovery, not of name calling or attacking anyone. Please do follow Reddiquette! This includes not insulting others. You're welcome to share a photo of something on an image host, and include a link in the comments, but there may be no submitted links to anything for sale (ie etsy, Kickstarter, Amazon). ![]() Kosemen's reimaginings of modern-day creatures check out his website.There are only two rules for this subreddit, please follow them. Unfortunately, since the skeleton was missing most of its bones, his half-baked reconstruction of the unicorn-like beast looked, well, totally and utterly ridiculous.įor more of C. So, when the skeleton caught the attention of Prussian scientist Otto von Geuricke, he saw the skeleton’s large single horn and assumed it was a unicorn. Since this was the 17th century, people had no knowledge of this extinct large-horned Ice Age animal, however, they did believe in unicorns. The most hilarious example of getting an animal spectacularly wrong came about when the skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was unearthed in the mountain town of Quedlinburg, present-day Germany, in the mid-1600s. A re-imagining of a baboon solely based on its skeleton. © C. However, paleontologists now believe they were actually like a land-dwelling bird of prey with feathers and colorful plumage. For decades, these Cretaceous-era creatures were assumed to look like agile and angry upright lizards, à la Jurassic Park. We can see this in the way velociraptors have been reconstructed by researchers over the years. It’s easy to see how these paleoart tropes can distort the way we depict extinct animals. ![]() Unfortunately, this often results in depictions of creatures looking extremely skinny, as you can see in Koseman's reimagining of a baboon (below). It’s perhaps easier to err on the side of caution and go easy on the soft tissue. ![]() If you were confronted with an elephant skull, you would have no idea that it actually possessed a 6-foot tube-like prehensile nose, nor would you expect it to be quite so thick and wrinkly.Ī large part of the problem comes from being forced to guess the amount of soft tissue that would be wrapped around the bone. Take his reimagining of an elephant (above left). A re-imagining of an elephant (left), a horse (top right), and a rhino (bottom right) based on their skeletons. Kosemen, an Istanbul-based illustrator and paleoartist, has created a series of illustrations re-imagining our planet’s present-day animals as if they were depicted by artists who had no living inspiration to go by.Īs you can see, they are way off the mark – and often downright terrifying. ![]()
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