>>56706254>In real life, fossils got put together wrong because people looked at the assembled skeleton and thought, "Yeah, that looks cool as hell." Not because some retard had no idea what they were doing and made something obviously wrong. No? They weren't reconstructing these animals just to be "cool", they were earnestly trying to make accurate reconstructions but those reconstructions were limited by a poor understanding of what these animals looked like and how they lived.
When some paleontologists did make shit up just for reputation like Edward Drinker Cope they generally did so by taking fragmentary remains and making insane exagerrations about what the rest of the dinosaur must've looked like, e.g. claiming a single leg bone was proof of the biggest dinosaur ever.
>Most cases of "mistake" reconstructions are actually just putting the head on the tail end because someone didn't realize the neck could be longer than the tail.That's literally Dracovish.
>and have descriptions amounting to, "It lives in constant agony." It's a joke that overstays its welcome.This is literally what early paleontologists believed. Dinosaurs and other ancient animals were inferior to modern animals. They were too big, slow, and stupid to survive and were just sitting around waiting to go extinct when the superior mammals appeared.
