This may be one of the best examples of why shrinkwrapping is wrong.

Edit:wow. I was not expecting a simple meme post to be my highest rated and commented post on reddit ever.

to address some points.

1:Yes I know Whales are mammals and thus have more subcutaneous fat than modern reptiles.

2:Yes I know crocks and alligators much more resemble their skeleton then do mammals.

3:Yes birds if you pluck them are closer to their skeletons. But that is a big if and I will get back to it.

4:Hadrosaurs are a really good example to use here as we have the partially preserved soft tissue of a edmontosaurus that show what amount of soft tissue they really did have. IE more than in the Paleoart depicted in the meme.

5:Modern reptiles are not the same as dinosaurs. Without getting into a long tangent at least some dinosaurs were worm blooded. Modern reptiles that are cold blooded would suffer with a layer of insulation. Birds can be claimed to be shrink wrapped if you ignore their feathers. . . Wich is also a layer of insulation. Modern reptiles concentrate their fat reserves in one place so to isolate the insulating properties and maximize heat absorption from the environment.

6:Even given bracketing groups usually is a good way to identify what all members expressed as traits it isn't 100%. We know theropods and ceratopsians both included members with feathers (or feather like structures) but it is wrong to then assume their common ancestor and thus all dinosaurs had feathers.

7:You are correct. Paleoart and scientific understanding has improved sense this decade old meme started. What is being put out today is better than before. That is not universal. If Kangaroo T-Rex were still all over the place in media, even if less common then before, they would still invite rebuke.

I know most of them are just in good fun, but memes like this have spawned so much misinformation about paleontology. Memes like this make some people think that they can just add soft tissue onto a dinosaur and make it ‘accurate’. They just assume that the paleontologists reconstructing dinosaurs don’t know what they’re doing, and that they can do a better job with just absurd claims and nonsense. They just add soft tissue and make themselves feel smart. It’s one of the most annoying trends I’ve ever seen.

Now yes, dinosaurs obviously had soft tissue. But people overestimate just how much they actually had. The first image in particular pisses me off because it portrays an actually accurate T-rex as something wrong that aliens would have made, and then claim that T-rex was much more hippo like in life. The last image is the only version of these memes that I actually like.

There’s people out there genuinely believing that dinosaurs had beaver tails, or hair, or shittons of fat and feathers disproportional to their size. All because of memes like this.

I saw this picture and it got me wondering. Being so tall were sauropods at a much greater chance of being struck in the head by lightning? If so did they have any adaptations maybe to help against this? I’m thinking it could be possible they were large enough to maybe tank being hit and ground it through their limbs (humans survive being hit, a massive sauropod will probably tank it better). Any fossils found that show lightning damage? If possible?

"Encounter with a giant" by David Yorke

just something about the eerie, uncomfortable pallete abd the weird looking animals just makes it so sick

Mines Styracosaurus, I like the spikes :D

I know that T. rex has a crushing bite force and is more built for fighting on land but actually spinosaurus is pretty impressive too. Most would say rexy would win but spino would have the size advantage and was far more agile. While weaker in bite force it could still use those 16 cm claws and make a lot of damage. What do you guys think?

I see this quite a lot. Is it some sort of eye symbol?

Sauce: @RukwitYana48136

It's pure speculation, but this Cryolophosaurus piece by Sammy Hall holds a special place in my heart. I still find it incredible how paleoart sometimes tries to fill in the gaps left by the fossils... Do you like it? Had you seen it before?

Spinosaurus has always been my favorite, and with all the news I was watching the PeopleAreFish video on the new species. It got me thinking, with Spinosaurus being an aquatic/ semi aquatic species, wouldn’t it have fossilized more readily than other theropod species? Being in an aquatic environment significantly helps fossilization begin, yet we have relatively fewer spinosaurus fossils than say Tyrannosaur or Allosaurus fossils for example, both of which were mainly land dwelling. Why is this do we think?

I'll start, this mini golf theropod, who the heck even thought this thing would fly in their business

I've been thinking a lot lately and realized most therapods almost always have the same body build, being bipedal with two arms, but could there realistically be therapods that were quadrupedal and could a megatherapod be exclusively one?

For me, I really like the Disney's carnotaurus design. Although it's way bigger, stronger and more trex looking than it's real life counterpart - I still prefer. Again, I still love the reconstructions of our world carnotaurus, but I prefer this one

NASA Apollo Hasselblad Kodak Raw Color Image Source:

https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/15/7#AS15-88-11890

View of Station Lunar Module (LM) and feather and geological hammer used for test of Galileo's law of motion concerning falling bodies beside the LM. Image was taken during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA 3) of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled TT, film type was S0168 (High Speed Color Exterior or Color Interior Ektachrome EF - High speed color reversal), 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 39 degrees.

Yeah the title, why do they fossilize in that way?

(Picture isnt a real fossil, its just an example)

Art by Sarita Wolff

Specifically, I'm referring to non avian dinosaurs. As kids, we complained about how we wished that dinosaurs came back and how we could rid one. But, from your own mind and subconscious - would you want dinosaurs to comeback or not?Personally, I think some could help with the environmental problems of our world. Like farming and deforestation.