Feathers?

Isn't this a while thing? Where archeologists have drawn alternative interpretations of what dinosaurs could have looked like. I think there was a famous example, where red they got people to.draw a dinosaur from a hippo skeleton and the creature was really scary looking?

Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures
- If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it's hippos
- i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
To be fair, hippos are one of the most dangerous animals for humans
- Gotta be about third after humans and mosquitoes.
All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
- Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
Yes.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-animals
- a response
- I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.
  To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.
  Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.
*Paleontologists
Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture

There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.

Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
- Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.
- We know what you mean, new ones are Jurassic WORLD.
- Before my local pub closed, there was a friendly paleontologist who would pop in from time-to-time.
  My favourite thing was to go up to her and say "So in Jurassic Park...", which always prompted an impromptu lecture about dinosaurs, what Jurassic Park (any of them) got wrong, and whatever else she was thinking about, which was always super interesting.
  Last thing I learned about was heated Discord debates among her colleagues about dire wolves.
Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!
they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.

Interesting thought, but don't penguins have feathers for insulation from cold weather so without the feathers they probably look less chunky.

Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?
- They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.
- penguins do have one of the densest feathers per square centimeter of any bird.
Penguins without their feathers are still pretty chonk, and decidedly penguin-shaped.
Their feathers (adult feathers, anyhow) are actually rather short but their coverage is extremely dense. The feathers make them waterproof, not insulated. Their thick skin and layer of fat is what makes them coldproof.
- It looks like me looking at myself in the mirror after a shower.

SPACE LLAMAAA

That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.

Checking out some walrus skeletons... yeah, I don't see why not.

Kind of hard to maintain that bulk on leaves and grass, bud. I guess it would help them with predators, though.

Hippos and rhinos get pretty big on that diet! If anything plants are a better diet for something really chunky because plants cannot run away
- Also elephants.
- plants cannot run away
  Sure, you just need a lot of it.
- The largest land animal today is an african elephant which is 14 feet tall. Brachiosaurus was 50 feet tall. They would need to eat an order of magnitude more because the cost of mobility increases with weight.
  Penguins, seals, and whales (and to a lesser extent hippos) can maintain this ratio because it gives them bouyancy while travelling in water.
  Plus, Hippos and Elephants are actually pretty big boned.
True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.
- Lion's eat Wathogs, Gazelle, Zebra and sometimes birds.
  Giraffe and Elephants are likely to kill a lion.
  Also an elephant's height is like 14 feet max. Brachiosaurus height was 50 feet.
- What? Can you source that? I’m extremely curious if that’s a real thing.
They have a good idea how much the big sauropods might have weighed based on fossilized foot prints and bone structure. Still, if something is not preserved in the fossil record it will not be shown in reconstructions.
What if it was reaaaaally fluffy down?
Please do the world a favor and stick to a carnivore diet. We would be subjected to you for much less time as a result. Maybe try some high meat, I hear that really activates your creatines or whatever.
- The fuck? I just said you can't maintain a 50 foot animal covered in fat on 3 feet of grass and that makes me some kind of threat to your vegan lifestyle?

there used to be a 6ft+ tall prehistoric penguin.

Penguins are technically dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs are technically penguins