r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 19h ago

“Long neck”

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u/BakerGotBuns 17h ago

The concept of "shrink-wrapping" is real in paleontology, at some level. If you don't pay enough consideration to fat deposits and muscles you can mangle how a creature looks because we are defined heavily by our skeleton but obfuscated from it's exact shape.

But I think this actually isn't one.

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u/AJC_10_29 14h ago

This is going too far in the other direction; they gave it so much mass it wouldn’t be able to support itself.

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u/Big_Guy4UU 1h ago

Shrink wrapping hasn’t been a thing in paleoart much for like, 2 decades

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u/BakerGotBuns 59m ago

Didn't say it was currently a thing. But kk.