• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    Check out the coffee table book, All Yesterdays. It’s half reinterpretations of known fossils, half artist renderings of contemporary animals based only on their skeletons. We’re obviously misinterpreting a lot of creatures going just off their skeletons and we’ll never know how they really appeared.

    As I recall, this is from the skeleton of a contemporary species of monkey, as an example: