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  I'd love to see how we would interpret elephants had they become extinct long before we were some. You can bet they wouldn't attribute it with the big ears and the trunk...

  

  Just goes to show that everything we think we know about what dinosaurs looked like is probably false...

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  • http://io9.com/59653…i_monk
  • I think some people theorized finding these skeletons could have been the origin of the cyclops storyukit2
  • not everything is false, because we can find many clues in fossils and dna to actual representationsmonospaced
  • now, a lot of it is wrong... some people say most dinosaurs, if not all, had some or tons of feathersmonospaced
  • Public understanding of paleontology/dinosau... is decades behind the science. The dinos-as-birds and dinos-with-feathers hypothesis wasi_monk
  • with-feathers theory was a majority position long before Jurassic Park came out.i_monk
  • And it's becoming more mainstream all the time since. We are learning, it's pretty cool.monospaced
  • These skulls were the basis of the cyclops myth in ancient greece_niko
  • Dwarf elephants actually
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