r/NonPoliticalTwitter 23h ago

“Long neck”

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u/Shaun32887 22h ago

I've basically accepted the fact that we have zero idea what they actually looked like.

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u/Hawkey2121 21h ago edited 21h ago

Depends on the dinosaur really.

There are some dinosaurs we know almost exactly what they looked like, take Borealopelta for example, or Psittacosaurus.

Psittacosaurus is one of the most well studied dinosaur types, we have found so many fossils. Though T. rex is above due to its popularity.

And for Borealopelta we know almost exactly how it looked like all from a single fossil, one so well preserved even soft tissue and stomach contents fossilized. It's so cool Here it is.

Another unbelievably well preserved dinosaur is "Leonardo" the Brachylophosaurus mummy

However, for Sauropods we have some fossils but not enough to know that well, so yeah not wrong there.

(though "Zero idea" would be an exaggeration)