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minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·2 年前Or, just like dinossaurs, we don’t know how they actually looked like because fossile records only contain bones.
minus-squareSoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 年前Other tissues can become fossilized but it’s less common as the conditions need to be just right. That’s how we know some dinosaurs had feathers and what their skin texture was like. Cambrian genera like Hallucigenia completely lacked bones and we have numerous fossils of them from deposits of shale. That’s how we know what they looked like: tiny Lovecraftian horrors.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 年前we know almost exactly how psittacosaurus looked:
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoeO_9Eu_E
minus-squareOlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosaurus
Or, just like dinossaurs, we don’t know how they actually looked like because fossile records only contain bones.
Other tissues can become fossilized but it’s less common as the conditions need to be just right. That’s how we know some dinosaurs had feathers and what their skin texture was like.
Cambrian genera like Hallucigenia completely lacked bones and we have numerous fossils of them from deposits of shale. That’s how we know what they looked like: tiny Lovecraftian horrors.
we know almost exactly how psittacosaurus looked:
How
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoeO_9Eu_E
80’s haircuts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosaurus