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The late Holocene running predator "Homo sapiens."Some specimens of this animal were found with trace fossils of hair near its head. Its restoration with similar integument near its arms here is tentative.
This animal shared its habitat with the vicious, sickle-clawed, pack-hunting "Cat," the long-necked "Horse," and the sail-backed "Cow."
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this was me back when i just began to work outΒ
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Hehe, I love jokey "reconstructions" like this.
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I saw a reconstruction that had a strip of hair above their eyes, how useless could that be?! It also had a protruding nose and fat storage on it's stomach area, not to mention they all came in different colors, like really? Scientists are trying to ruin Cenozoic Park, I swear...
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How did you find this lol
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paleo-king.deviantart.com/art/β¦
:^)
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Why would he portray a modern pterosaur like that? Completely lacking phycnofibers and fat?
scratches chin with claw
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It's also way to skinny, it would be dead
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attack of the zombie pterosaurs
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paleo-king.deviantart.com/art/β¦
nuff said
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I think I'd rather have bootai then tails...
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Especially that the booty-less individuals lack a muscle that would be crucial for locomotion
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oh, he said booty
that comment perplexed me for so longΒ
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Really? Ha! Sorry about that then.
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no I'm sorry for not understanding
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I find it a little hard to believe we Homo Novas evolved from THAT hideous thing.Β Those lowly Homo Lutum maybe, but us?Β No.Β I just can't swallow that.
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I saw this bizarre reconstruction someone made of a homo sapiens once where two blobs were randomly hanging on its chest. What purpose would these things even serve anyway? Honestly, these things would just make the creature look weird and hideous in my opinion.
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Seriously speaking here, I actually do wonder why "female" humans have to have such big breasts... it IS weird imo. It just seems annoying and bulky for thoses who have such indeed blods. Honestly im glad mines are pretty small.
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I liked homo sapiens better when they were on all fours... science ruins everything
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which one is that in reference to? Iguanadon?
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woah woah woah wait
this is what we were SUPPOSED to look like?
omg #3fab5me Β
but really i can't tell if the description is serious or not lol
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Basically this is a statement on how inaccurate one can be when interpreting what an extinct animal looked like based on its fossils. It's like if say 100 million years something else is kicking about and finds fossil remains of us, how would they picture us? How would they interpret the evidence, assuming they use similar reasoning and methods.
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there are some theories stating that the humans were a advanced civilization that had wiped themselves out by nuclear war, but scientists have dismissed them as stories made by paranoid crackpots.
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It's the government, man! THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW!
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Makes me wonder, there was a thick layer of iridium in the strata during the late Mesozoic. Perhaps the cause of the K-Pg extinction were sapient dinosaurs!
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How will they ever know how glorious we looked when our plumage was cresting?
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Nowadays, we know, that "humans" hadn't an upright position, like this. Also, "humans" were semi-aquatic.
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Did you hear about the medium sized omnivore "pigs"? It's said, that they are possible relatives of the ancient "cows". They lived near together in "barn" buildings... Maybe some kind of hive, built by them. It could be possible, that they are the same species.
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Meanwhile, the "Dog," although often considered an active predator due to its large teeth and long legs, must really have been a scavenger due to the lack of sharp claws. Furthermore, its large olfactory lobe clearly indicates it was adapted for tracking down carcasses. Its larger size compared to a cat was obviously for scaring packs of cats away from their kills.
After all, we know cats had to have been pack hunters due to evidence from the larger but closely-related "Lion."
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Was just thinking, could you imagine how future paleontologists would interprit an Ant-Eater? "Clearly some manner of nectar feeding herbivore, moving about from flower to flower like a massive butterfly, using its claws for self-defence."
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If you ever color this specimen, I suggest using vivid, bright colors in elaborate patterns (of red, green, yellow and orange, for example) . Anatomical studies have shown that members of this genus had well developed eyes, as well as the accompanying areas corresponding to vision in the brain, but a comparatively poorly developed sense of smell, unlike related genera of mammals. Although speculative, it is entirely possible that these animals would actually have been able to distinguish a variety of colors, and if so, they would likely have possessed vivid coloration to facilitate social interactions - for example, for mating purposes and intra-species recognition (which is doubly plausible considering that they probably could not use scent for this purpose, owing to their relatively underdeveloped olfactory sense). Otherwise, I fully endorse this restoration and expect to be seeing full, life sized reconstructions mounted in our finest museums in the near future, so that all may admire these magnificent creatures as they must have looked like while they still roamed this world!
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That's called clothing. That's what we do with clothing.
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True, but we didn't evolve with clothing, it's just something we've been using in the last few thousand years (compared to the hundreds of thousands and millions of years that our species and genus has been around). We can also fly (with aircraft) and "see" x-rays now, but we didn't evolve with that ability either. Humans use technology to do all kinds of things.
In any case, primate ancestors of Homo Sapiens probably evolved color vision to help with distinguishing fruit (ripe from unripe, for example), but it's easy to see how a future scientist might arrive at the erroneous conclusion that we were a biologically brightly colored species and reconstruct us as such, though in actual fact, we are not - at least not compared to many birds and reptiles, for example!
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The late Holocene is distinguished from other time periods by the strange sedimentary materials and the large number of extinctions. It is unknown how many life forms became extinct during this time. Homo sapiens itself has been proposed as having a central role in these peculiarities, but it is now commonly believed that this is improbable.
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I just imagined how strange would look reconstruction based on skeleton of earth vertebrate (like human) made by aliens with external skeleton, who had never seen any creature with internal bones. Tey would probably try to place most of bones outside body. That would be eerie. Maybe it is also good idea to draw?
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I'm not sure if this is a fair criticism. Mammals typically have considerably more flesh over their heads and the musculature in the legs is quite different. If you look at a naked bird, you'll see that they typically do in fact have the "shrink wrapped" look seen in GSP's restorations. The lack of a protruding calcaneus and generally different muscle shape gives bird legs a "drumstick" look, with little more than tendons, skin and bone on the lower legs and feet. Greg Paul was putting feathers on dinosaurs, even the ornithischians (including baby hadrosaurids), so I'm not sure why this restoration has so little hair.
It would be more fair to guess how a distant future alien paleoartist might reconstruct a human by using extant mammal species as a reference. I would bet that it would be constructed without claws, lots of hair, lips, outer ears that might look too pointed or long and possibly a flat, ape like nose. I think it would look closer to us than what you depicted here.
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I agree with your objections - this picture is intended as a critique of sparse palaeoreconstructions in general rather than an attack on GSP.
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Well now I just feel stupid.... lol
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I am a relic of the time of humans. I watched their race leave this planet for pastures new. Those that didn't were annihilated by the malevolent Martians, who had been drawn back to their home solar system by a possible threat to their survival. I cannot explain what they looked like, as their bodies were a work of art, something no land-dwelling squid will ever understand. I was once human, but I am now a vampire, forced to walk the Earth for eternity. Picture me without iridescent skin/fangs and you only get a small glimpse of the long-gone humans. *sobs*
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But...isn't the Martian home system ALSO the Homo sapiens' home system?
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Ah, so FRIGGIN' true in regards to how many people restore dinosaurs and other prehistoric critters
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