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Published: 2011-12-15 14:30:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 9138; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 50
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I started this as a frivolous joke, but now I'm almost convinced of it... Just look at their frikking skulls!Related content
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I wan't that mustache.
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Wait... Are they communicating with their trunks? It seems so. Like elephants, but... x2!
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I can imagine them moving their trunks in all directions... If I would see them, I would totally freak out and run away.
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Grabbing leaves and squirting water into their mouths.
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Actually I think it's now accepted that the nostrils were farther down the snout
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it's like a Jurassic Park remake directed by Guillermo del Toro
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It's like an alien octopoid reconstructed a dolphin from just vertebrae and skulls...
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It is a png file with a transparent background.
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It looked really silly at first, but now that I think of it you kind of have an idea there.
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I don't think it'd be as hardcore as double trunks, but gigantic wattles, air sacs and snoods are certainly plausible.
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Perhaps something tapir-ish?
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Tapir / turkey snood / gharial snout thing
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I can really see a gharial snout on a sauropod, now that you mention it.
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This reminds me of a quote I once heard, about how if we had elephant skulls but no modern elephants, we'd probably reconstruct something that looked like a giant hamster.
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It's so weird... But one of the most awesome speculations I've ever seen.
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This is kinda awesome ... don't know how I missed it!
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I've seen something like this in a king kong book I bought a few years ago. Some how alot of us see that these species of dinosaurs may be similar to elephants. It is interesting.
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What is #grawr? Can you explain a bit more?
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#grawr is a hashtag on Twitter that was "hijacked" by Ed Yong, Brian Switek, and a bunch of other dinosaur fans to discuss dinosaur "facts" that have no basis in reality.
For example - "It is increasingly clear to me that Anomalocaris was a Triceratops. They just haven't rearranged the bits correctly yet. #GRAWR" Or one of my favorites, "Dimetrodon sails absorbed energy that could be redirected into its laser-eyes."
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Haha wonderful! I'll definitely give it a look...
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About ten minutes - this is an extremely crude sketch...
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Im sorry to "kill the fun" , but its very unlikely these animals had trunks
still a nice art piece tough!
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I know that "twin trunks" are way over the top, but I don't think something like a elephant seal's "trunk" is out of the question.
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I tend to lean more to an inflatable air sac, like those of hooded seals, or those in your brontosapien
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not so frivolous a joke: the usual rendering of the head is unconvincing, I am sure that that bone structure means something interesting --- twin trunks or something else.
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My thoughts exactly, though this interpretation is purposefully over-the-top...
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better over the top than below
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I have a feeling I would understand this if I knew more about dinosaurs/paleontology... could someone please enlighten me?
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Okay, so these animals, known as "sauropods" have skulls with very strange holes in them. But most restorations simply cover them with skin. I think that instead of being bare, their skulls supported some fancy soft-tissue structures, but I cannot be sure of their nature.
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Okay, thanks for educating me; I know a little bit about a lot of things, but paleontology -- or biology for that matter -- has never been my field of generalization (as opposed to specialization, because that's not how I roll). However, I HAVE read a ridiculous amount of sf, so I feel qualified enough to draw random-ass conclusions.
Possible explanations:
- the foramina (had to look up the plural of "foramen") discovered in the skull weren't natural; instead, they were drilled at hatching to provide access to the brain, for cybernetics. (Incredibly unlikely, but it means cyborg dinosaurs, so thus cool.)
- another kind of sensory organ set into the head was located there; the closest analogue I can think of is sharks' electricity-sensing-thingy.
- those critters had four eyes.
- that's where the miniature pilot sat who controlled their biological-dinosaur-mecha.
Also, I finally found the image this reminded me of: [link]
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That's... almost deranged
Instead of being an awe-inspiring moment, if the brachiosaur in Jurassic Park had looked like this the characters would probably have run screaming.
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