Top 13 Most Inaccurate Fossil Reconstructions

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Today we examine the top 13 and a half most inaccurate fossil reconstructions! Hope you enjoy!

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[remo]

5:32 'WHY OH GOD WHYY WAS I CURSED WITH THESE MONSTROUSLY HUGE HANDS??"

[jademonass]

"man that small skull would have such a small brain"

"oh i know, _he has another one in his tail_ "

[gandalf]

You can’t really fault that guy who reconstructed the first dinosaur found, he couldn’t have done much better.

[McChicken]

The first one made me feel so uncomfortable, it was just a lizard with a human like posture, and I hated it.

[namesirename]

That mammoth reconstruction had me laughing so that my earphones came out.

[jh]

I remember the gliding ankylosaur, it was in a children's book. The section that displayed it was in fact some kind of activity where you had to guess which dinosaurs were real or fictional, and so the ankylosaur was intentionally designed to be inaccurate.

[AhriOfAstora]

This David Peters dude should drop paleo art and just become concept artist. His stuff could work in games and movies with no need to butcher science.

[jellysquid]

Some of these I can understand, like the T-Rex one.

Others make me wonder if the person who made them had ever seen another living animal

[erickriul]

I actually had that last book when i was a kid. The reconstruction is false on purpouse. The reader was supposed to tell the wrong ones!

[singularitymultitude]

It approaches.

*fwap fwap fwap fwap*

It will be here soon

*FwapFwapFwapFwap*

It’s gonna kill us

*FWAPFWAPFWAPFWAP*

The aeolosaurus is here for you

*sound of a four ton flying dino breaking down a wall*

Run

[Alfredo_]

"In the online world of pterosaur science, there are two main and largely opposing forces: paleontologists, and a man named David Peters."

[Arckil]

3:40 This guy probably discovered a dinosaur-bird named "Millenium Falcon" lmao

[devvratbani]

One day the highly evolved anthropods will find our bones and have debate on whether we had exoskeleton or hair/fur.

[SteveAbbottOfficial]

Son: Mom can we have Mammoth?
Mom: No, we already have Mammoth at home

Mammoth at home: 4:05

[saddamhussein]

Respect for William Buckland.
Even though he got it wrong, he used what little fossil evidence he had and his knowledge of modern animals to form a logical conclusion.

[samschmidt]

The inaccurate mammoth reconstruction that looks like a warthog is one of my favorite pieces of paleo just because of how bad it is.

Also, one of the big problems with David Peters is that, despite his reconstructions being highly inaccurate, they are very official looking. With some species of pterosaur, his reconstructions come up in the first few results on google. To people who don't know much about pterosaurs, it can be convincing.

[thealmightyleo]

I love how genuinely enraged you sounded while talking about David Peters

[studiodogy]

"Mom can we have a prehistoric creature?"
"No honey we have prehistoric creatures at home"
The prehistoric creatures at home:

[tornadomash]

Plot twist: they were all correct and we're just clueless

[smallwildfox]

I did some research and apparently the 'gliding Ankylosaurus' one is actually part of a children's book and part of a quiz in which the children had to guess which dinosaur didn't exist... I feel a bit relieved that it wasn't supposed to be real in the first place because I spent so many minutes staring at it thinking 'who the f made this?! Were they drunk?'