Reconstructing soft anatomy

[Trisdino]

This is the thread for continuing the Ultimatedinoking discussion.

[Ultimatedinoking]

Aww, you made a thread for me... Hey wait a sec?!?

[Yutyrannus]

Thanks! So, Ultimatedinoking, if bats weren't around today and only fossils were known from them, would you honestly depict them like this?
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Shrink-Wrapped-Bat-431346889

[Trisdino]

Here ya go, a test:

[Ultimatedinoking]

Thanks! So, Ultimatedinoking, if bats weren't around today and only fossils were known from them, would you honestly depict them like this?
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Shrink-Wrapped-Bat-431346889

Oh no! I'm not going to that place again! Too much weird stuff.

[Ultimatedinoking]

Here ya go, a test:

Pika?

[Trisdino]

Nope, far from it.

[Ultimatedinoking]

Nope, far from it.

I'm not a rodent specialist.

3/4 isn't too bad. 

[Yutyrannus]

Okay would you restore an elephant without a trunk if we didn't know they had them?

[Ultimatedinoking]

Okay would you restore an elephant without a trunk if we didn't know they had them?

Ah, but we have frozen mammoths, with trunks.

We have no Spinosaurus with imprints of chin fat.

[Trisdino]

of the other 3, you checked the sign in the picture for 1, and the links for the two others, no, I do not believe you are such an expert at carnivorans, but let us really put that to the test:




Edit: No, we don't but we also know from modern day animals that not A SINGLE living creature has no fat whatsoever. All reptiles and birds have a large amount of integument, be they skin, scales, fat, or feathers, covering their body shape.

[Yutyrannus]

Okay would you restore an elephant without a trunk if we didn't know they had them?

Ah, but we have frozen mammoths, with trunks.

We have no Spinosaurus with imprints of chin fat.

I said if we didn't know.

That's not fat, that's a throat sac man .

[Yutyrannus]

of the other 3, you checked the sign in the picture for 1, and the links for the two others, no, I do not believe you are such an expert at carnivorans, but let us really put that to the test:

The picture doesn't show up.

[Trisdino]

Should work now

[Yutyrannus]

Should work now

Yep.

[Ultimatedinoking]

of the other 3, you checked the sign in the picture for 1, and the links for the two others, no, I do not believe you are such an expert at carnivorans, but let us really put that to the test:

First off, I didn't look at the sign. I didn't even see it until people started pointing it out.

Hmm, some type of felid, medium to small size based on the tools, could I get a better skull view?

[Ultimatedinoking]

Okay would you restore an elephant without a trunk if we didn't know they had them?

Ah, but we have frozen mammoths, with trunks.

We have no Spinosaurus with imprints of chin fat.

I said if we didn't know.

That's not fat, that's a throat sac man .

So, it's half frog?

Perhaps not a trunk, but based off the attachment points, you could see that a fleshy organ existed on loxodonta. (Or elephas)

[Trisdino]

Dude... you just said that throat sacks are exclusive to frogs...

[Trisdino]

And here is the skull

[Yutyrannus]

Okay would you restore an elephant without a trunk if we didn't know they had them?

Ah, but we have frozen mammoths, with trunks.

We have no Spinosaurus with imprints of chin fat.

I said if we didn't know.

That's not fat, that's a throat sac man .

So, it's half frog?

Perhaps not a trunk, but based off the attachment points, you could see that a fleshy organ existed on loxodonta. (Or elephas)

Or friget bird.

Not really, there's nothing on the skull to suggest some sort of fleshy organ. it could techinacally be just a bear like nose.