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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren't these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?

But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator

This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.