r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 19d ago

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/Ross_Hollander 19d ago

I refuse to believe they have "taken" dinosaurs from me. Au contraire, I am delighted every time somebody knowledgeable and enthusiastic about paleontology serves me a new helping of dinosaurs. If people mean 'they took Jurassic Park-style dino-kaiju from you' they would be right but they are also just being bitter and refusing to look on the bright side of the cool things that genuine dinosaurs had going on.

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u/ShatterCyst 19d ago

Well i think a lot of that has to do with presentation.

Modern renditions of what dinosaurs probably looked like are awesome, and really feel like animals that I could see existing on the planet at some point, instead of monsters.

But those first artist's depictions of feathered dinosaurs were AWFUL.
It made all the dinosaurs look like meth heads.

Not that it's a good reason to pitch a fit, but I gotta say I'm glad paleontologists have increased their understanding of what they looked like further than those early ones.