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[–] 115 points 1 year ago (10 children)

No. This was created by someone who has no idea how any of this work. Soft tissues leave marks on bones.

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  • [–] 134 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Soft tissues can also become fossils under the right conditions. For an example, here is the fossil used for the B. markmitchelli holotype:

    It’s the single most detailed and complete soft tissue fossil ever discovered. It took the technician six years to extract and separate the fossil from the surrounding stone. The technician’s name is Mark Mitchell, and the species was named after him.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't ruin my dream of fluffy dinosaurs 😭

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn't, like most big mammals. Bigger body, more heat to dissipate, but less relative surface to do so; the square-cube law can be a bit of a bitch, for big (probably at least somewhat) endothermic critters.

    Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.

    Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn't be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying...

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your bones aren't just swimming around in a sea of muscles. They are attached to the muscles and sinews. So those places where they are attached are formed in specific ways depending on what is attached.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Also, as you move throughout your life, those attachments can cause stress in places that build up, and your bones will show all of that. For instance, even though all humans have the same soft tissue connection points, we can tell by a skeleton whether a person had a life of hard labour vs relative luxury, whether they were an archer with stronger and more stressed arm muscles, etc.

    If tail vertebrae, for instance, have spent their life supporting and moving a heavy amount of soft tissue, those connection points will look much different than a similar tail of skin and bone with far less weight to bear.

    So now, we have a pretty good idea not only where soft tissues attached, but their relative size, strength, and use.

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