>>20977302Oh wow, I totally didn't expect to see a topic referencing the book All Yesterdays (man, I want to get my hands on that book sooooooo bad).
Also, I personally prefer the Baboon reconstruction as an example; had paleontologists found modern baboon remains and tried to reconstruct them as they do with every dinosaur, they'd look like this.
Basically, everything we know about the looks of dinosaurs today may be wrong as hell. As for the fossil machines in the Pokemon universe... isn't there an in game assumption about mega Aerodactyl that theorizes that the mega form was the original form of Aerodactyl? So when they revived them, they got the toned down Aerodactyl we know from gen 1. This isn't proved yet though but may be a case of the machines getting the fossils wrong.
But I do think the machines are at least 95-99% right since they use some super technology to extract the DNA from fossils rather than guess on the looks of Pokemon based on their fossils/skeletons. If those machines could do something like that, what would stop humankind from creating hundreds of new genetically engineered Pokemon based on mere "plans" as opposed to using actual DNA.
