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Anyone who’s interested in this should check out the book All Yesterdays, where artists have tried reimagining dinosaurs with actual muscle and fat instead of the shrink-wrapped look. They updated some classic dinosaur designs based on recent findings, such as how triceratops may have had spines/quills along its back like a porcupine.

To demonstrate how unrealistic the shrink-wrapping style is, for the second half of the book they applied that technique to known modern animals with some terrifying results, like these swans.

Yeah, the way a brachiosaurus' skull is shaped, it's possible it had a trunk but that wouldn't have fossilized since it's all muscle and skin.

Don't really need to say technically, they just are dinosaurs.

And it's not just technically: birds literally are theropod dinosaurs, and the only known dinosaurs to survive to modern age

That illustrates the point perfectly!

Who said it's fat, though? Sauropods are interesting in that they had systems of air sacs, like modern birds, that can puff up their apparent size without necessarily adding a lot of weight.

Also the curve of the neck at the base of the head doesn't look natural if that was all fat.