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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I love the art in Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. Such an amazing book!



(Sinosauropteryx, archeopteryx and anurognathus. And BTW the colours are accurate. We can find out now.)

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry but that last one is just so fucking goofy looking. If that thing came to attack me I would just die of laughter and it would then be able to eat me.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why would it attack you? It was the size of a budgie. Really doubt a budgie would be able to eat you no matter how hard it would try.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

I mean, really depends on the time period. Bugs are a surprisingly bad frame of size reference depending on the time period. Tha little insect might actually be human sized ^^'

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Who knows. Animals can behave strangely sometimes. I also missed the bug so I had no idea how big it would be.

Sounds like a successful hunting tactic to me