• baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I remember someone mentioned online that the reconstruction of animals are more complicated than just tracing the bone line.

    I am very interested if some experts are willing to tell us more.

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      1 year ago

      Since none chimed in (in the past 6 minutes) , I, an idiot, will share what I think I know. When reconstructing the faces of people from a skull, either with clay or software, they model the various tissues–muscles, fat, skin, etc according to models based on samples. How they would do this for a creature that isn’t very like any current living creature I don’t know. It is probably educated guesswork?

      I just read an article on this process for a neanderthal and in that particular instance they used data from humans since I guess it was close enough.

      But, for example (referencing a recent meme) how do they know spinosaur had a sail and not a hump back and neck muscles like a buffalo?? Seriously though I’m sure they can tell which bones have attachment points, how much force they can withstand, etc.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll be honest, I double-checked your username to make sure I’m not going to read about Undertaker at the end

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      1 year ago

      They can get some idea from the bones of muscle attachment points and how strong of a muscle would have been attached.