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soft-cheek · 1 month ago

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Today I learned that apparently there's a travelling pokemon fossil exhibit in Japan thatll set up at local museums with like life size statues of some of the fossil pokemon and don't get me wrong I would love to see it. But fucking

Do we see this are we looking at this, apparently we're claiming that aurorus has bone sails

So immediately I had to look into it like damn maybe they are? They like move though so I looked into it and

Well now wait just one minute ok so not only are they skin, which ok I figured as much, but also the fossil you use to resurrect this bitch is an impression fossil so already I'm like wait they don't even have any DNA from this bitch (which you wouldn't from the vast majority from fossils just anyway including almost all bone fossils too but I feel like I can justify pokemon resurrection magic more when you have the bone fossil) how on earth did they manage to resurrect a whole dinosaur from an impression fossil

But back to my previous point all I'm saying is that the skeleton they've got in this showcase is the equivalent to one of these

#apparently this is being used educationally like comparing these to real fossils which like #makes me more angry because they couldve used this as an opportunity to showcase that soft tissues are rarely preserved #like leave off the sails and show in a picture that it would've had them yknow #maybe have it accompany other impression fossils yknow #knowing that the skeletons we see of dinos look vastly different from what they looked like with their meat is cool and fun to learn!!!!!#anyway i really like the kabutops model in the exhibit its fun #AND accurate haha

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