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Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals


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Wait.. WHAT!?  Don't tell me Dunk is that much smaller!  Definitely a cautionary tale.

-Jay

 

 

“The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

 

 

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Looking at that chart, I feel that some of the animals have their size estimate ''rubberbanded'' too much.  It does make a point, however no need to go extreme in the opposite size direction, because then that is just as inaccurate.

 

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and more recent estimates, the validity of which remain uncertain (black silhouettes).

 

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-Jay

 

 

“The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

 

 

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