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minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoTo be fair here’s how cats would be reconstructed if they went extinct and we had to rely on fossils: …nah, screw that, the lady in my pic is still hella charming, the one in the OP is an abomination! Translated from Spanish And they didn’t even make some joke on how dumb (burro) it looks like! hglksflksdlllksdf
minus-squareCultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoNo they’d look like their skin was shrink wrapped to their skeleton on top of having no hair. They’d probably leave off the ears too
minus-squareYosmonkol@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoJohn Conway and CM Koseman did modern animals drawn like dinosaur illustrations. I can’t find the original posts but here’s a buzzfeed article with a good assortment, including a reptilian rendition of a cat.
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoUrgh. That’s horrifying:
To be fair here’s how cats would be reconstructed if they went extinct and we had to rely on fossils:
…nah, screw that, the lady in my pic is still hella charming, the one in the OP is an abomination!
And they didn’t even make some joke on how dumb (burro) it looks like! hglksflksdlllksdf
No they’d look like their skin was shrink wrapped to their skeleton on top of having no hair. They’d probably leave off the ears too
John Conway and CM Koseman did modern animals drawn like dinosaur illustrations. I can’t find the original posts but here’s a buzzfeed article with a good assortment, including a reptilian rendition of a cat.
Urgh. That’s horrifying:
