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Hammerhead skull (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The stuff of nightmares

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Ancient people finding things like this washed up on the beach is how tales of sea monsters we born.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If I'd find this on the beach I'd relocate into the mountains.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Things like this really make me wonder how accurate our understanding of dinosaurs is today. There is no way anyone would manage to do a reconstruction that looks like a hammerhead shark just from this skull.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I want to hear the local's tell the story about the witch in the forest that merged the ghost owl with the giant bitey fish, and how if little kids don't get their chores done, the monster will eat them when they go to the pond or river for a bath.

This skull is proof, and I will not hear otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think any reconstruction of a dinosaur where there is just a skull as a refence point will be taken with a fairly large pinch of salt. However, many dinosaurs look fairly similar to other dinosaurs that we do have more complete fossils as reference, so they'll end up being based on those as well.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Woah that looks like an angry hydra about to eat me 😬

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Moisturize me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fascinating <3

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is way more than mildly interesting!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It looks as though the skull was "unwrapped" and straightened out.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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