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minus-square@sinkingship@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoAren’t these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game? But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?
minus-squareGloomylinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agohttps://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.
Aren’t these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?
But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator
This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.