brett-caton: virgogreen:Fun fact, this may actually account for many of the “imaginings&rdqu
brett-caton: virgogreen: Fun fact, this may actually account for many of the “imaginings” we have of extinct animals. I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate. There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs. Fun examples include: The manatee An elephant Swans And literally the picture of the hippo I think it captures the essence of the swan very well… -- source link