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“Every reconstruction involves some level of inference and speculation to literally ‘flesh out’ details not preserved in the fossil record,” Celeskey explains. “In the process of creating paleoart, artists and the researchers have discussions about how to fill in these missing pieces, which helps everyone involved to think about how they are interpreting the actual evidence at hand.” From a NatGeo article I found
Tldr: Trust me bro
“I asked around the office and everyone agreed that giving the t-Rex wings looked dope”
Similarly, "I asked around the office and everyone agreed that giving dinos the feathers we now know they had would look too silly"
"Triceratops had cat ears because of reasons."