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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly it would be a more accurate portrayal of how vicious hippos actually are. I think on this one, nature is just fucking with us by making hippos look that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, given that they are actually viscous liquids..

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

the ferocious earth animal known as hipposaurus rex was estimated to kill about 30000 to 100000 humans yearly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey i just thought of an actually good use for generative image ai models

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That hippo has the face of someone getting blown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Definitely getting the best head out of the three

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've always seen hippos with blunt teeth. Do they wear down those fangs eating river weed?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

If they’re in a zoo, they cut them off because they’re basically six-8 daggers and hippos are freaking mean.

Here’s a reasonable link, but yes they also wear down in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

He looks like he just shit after holding it in all day

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (3 children)

dinosaurs may have had big honkers there's simply no way to know whether or not they had big mommy milkers the soft tissue of the gazongas is not preserved in the fossil record experts are divided on the question of whether dinosaurs had huge jugs each outcome is equally likely there is a fifty percent chance that every dinosaur was blessed with real big hoohas

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dinosaurs were not mammals, so they did not have huge boobs, at least in a sense of mammary glands.

Of course, those non-avian dinosaurs that died could have had some kinky sexual organs but non of the bird species we know of has huge mammary glands so avian dinosaurs most likely did not have either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

pteranodons had massive, dangly clits. thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

new copypasta just dropped

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Are… uh… furries, but with scales… a thing?

Almost afraid to ask.

If not… I imagine they’re about to be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You've never seen anthro dragon porn?? What the fuck kind of weird ass porn do you watch that you've never seen dragon porn?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Yes. They're unsurprisingly called scalies

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

Normally I'm not on board with the perversity of the modern internet, but there's something noble in what you're doing.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.

Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It could be that all of the lifeforms the aliens have ever seen had that shrink-wrapped look, so they'd have no reason to look for muscle attachments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

Science is a process. Just because it's improved today doesn't mean it's perfect.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Since birds are dinosaurs and have all kinds of specialized behaviors and non-fossilizing traits like specialized feathers, I assume the big dinosaurs had all kinds of wacky shenanigans and non-fossilizing soft tissues too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So you're saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hippos smile like on the right, but will tear you to shreds like in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, no. The one in the middle would do it because he wanted to eat you. The hippo is a vegetarian who would do it for the sheer joy of killing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The one in the middle has no muscles so…