Only someone with extremely low knowledge of anatomy would make a comment like that. A spine reflects the connective tissue, particularly muscular tissue, very well. Note the extremely wide transverse process on each vertebra - this is indicative of at least some width to the tail.
There have been countless dinosaurs samples discovered with feathers, stop coping.
>>5054205This, with enough practice you can even recreate an image of someone's unique facial structure just from a pic of a skull. The software they use to make it will make the image look weird but they almost always get it right.And it's not even a big lab studying the skull or whatever, usually it's just one guy with photoshop esque software.
they'd be able to look at the DNA and skeletal system to recognize that it is a mammal and rodent, then work back to at least fill in details
i refuse to think
>>5054243I'm pretty sure you still need context clues like the local population you're dealing with to make such reconstruction, Hell, we can't be 100% sure about gender of bones unless we know the average measures of the people involved, and some bones like ribs and femurs are practically useless.
>>5054195he cute
>>5054323>some bones like ribs and femurs are practically useless.Women have more ribs cuz Holly Bibble said so. She was my third year teacher.
>>5054195It weird when people think that we don't learn from making mistakes.
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>>5054195The tail would probably leave impressions on rock depending on how well preserved it is
>>5054332Now do a hippo
>>5054205The transverse vertebra only tell the animal moved his tail up and down. It would come down to speculation whether their tails were flat, at what end were flat, what they used it for etc. Most likely they would assume they did some elaborate social ritual like playing bongos on the water with them.
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>>5054410Lol sure buddy
>>5054495Now do a hippo.
>>5054195Dawww. Bobr wants uppies.
Holy accuracy now THIS is like a real animal. None of that awesomebro jurassic park nonsense
>>5054195The entire body form of a velociraptor can be seen. And it's a theropod so it has many lineage.
>>5054328You, too?Although he was by 11th grade teacher.Religious education, not biology, mind you.
>>5054410Maybe it's just me but I always felt like the original image falsely implies that hippos don't have a weird head shape and giant fucking tusks that stick out of their mouth.
>>5054661Cope. Feathers are basal to archosaurs.
>>5054195wtf why's he flipping me off
>>5054243Then why are all those jane doe photos so fucked up
>>5054659mm popcorn...
