>>6963383Obviously we will not get 100% accurate idea from just the bones. but comparing the complaints of 'they are just shrink wrapping' to what they think a shrink wrapped bird looks like and an actual bird bereft of feathers, the comparisons are very close. The whole 'shrinkwrapping' of modern animals to show the average person 'this is what scientists done with bones and look how stupid it is' is a huge farce. They use methods that THEY think the scientists use on modern bones instead of what methods are actually being used. They lost mass in recreations over the years because of the switch to the idea that Dinosaurs are more closely related to birds then reptiles, so they start to more closely resemble a bird with scales instead of feathers. But that too is now changing to feathers.
There is actually a mummified duck billed dinosaur that was found with over 90% of it's skeleton covered in preserved soft tissue. It really helped to show just how accurate the methods scientists have been using these days are. It also gave us some stuff that scientists would never be able to figure out otherwise like a crest composed entirely of soft tissue, like the fleshy crest on a chicken.
>>6952500something that might interest you is that fairly recent was a discovery in canada of perhaps the absolutely best preserved dinosaur ever. It is a member of the Ankylosaurs, and is also Pic Related. It is believed this thing fell off a cliff and sank into the ocean with such force that it created a small crater that very quickly filled in around it. Allowing a non pressed, full Three Dimensional preservation, even the keratin sheathes covered the thorns were preserved as well as skin. It pretty much confirmed that the scientists were mostly accurate with Ankylosaur type recreations.
It was a very lucky thing one of the construction workers noticed the weird pattern in the rock before more of it was destroyed by the excavator.
