The beautiful thing about science is the changes persistent study and experimenting can reveal.
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!
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(ba-dum-bump CHING)
Saw this and thought of Dina!
Very interesting.
(Just came from x)
Paleontologists in 2024: Hear me out, now, it's called Iguanodon so what if...bare with me here...what if it actually DID kinda look like an Iguana?
I felt a 'modern' reconstruction should have something like wilder integumentary structures we now know ornithischians could have had.
(Also I was imitating a painting of Mantellodon by Jack Wood that I really like.)
I was still at the upright stabby thumbs mental image
Iguano Don Juan
Iguano Don Quixote
Iguano Don Giovanni
Iguano Don Corleone
Iguano Don Cheadle
What you're seeing is actually the Iguanodon moving in a digitigrade fashion (walking on it fingers and toes--versus plantigrade where it would walk on its soles).
(https://sketchfab.com/historicengland/collections/crystal-palace-dinosaurs-5cc3ed7d0d2e48c0a3edb0f656a970bf)
It looks rather happy.
Or more importantly where did the idea of the nose horn come from if not the fossils?!
Are the last ones actually feathers?
Excellent.
I guess if the head was found near the leg be hard to tell what it went with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHszQL-kxfQ&pp=ygUMYW50ZWRpbHV2aWFu
(Although the idiot in me wants to see the 2525 version where it develops jet engines and takes off)
The most current reconstruction looks like it's a distant relative to modern birds (and they finally fixed those wrists!)