Silver Tongue

palaeontology-official:

xinea:

palaeofail-explained:

Something that really upsets me about palaeoartists who draw extinct mammals in particular is the rampant shrinkwrapping.

Compare a hippo skull and hippo head:

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Or a pig:

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And now look at how extinct mammals are depicted. Like entelodonts:

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Or uintatheres:

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It just……really doesn’t follow what we know about mammals, at all. I’d wager both entelodonts and uintatheres had a LOT of soft tissue on their heads completely obscuring the shape of their skulls, and so did a lot of other extinct mammals.

what im getting from this is that dinosaurs are chubby and soft pass it on

There aren’t any dinosaurs in this post, but yes

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