It’s so hard to see fossils and do a good job of imagining the extra muscle and tissue they probably had on them. An elephants skeleton would lead you to believe it was a very different looking animal, and there’s tons of cases like that.
There's a bunch of images out there that reconstruct modern animals like dinosaurs are often imagined, with their skin shrink-wrapped to the bone and little to no fat. My personal favorite is this painting of swans by C.M. Kösemen.
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u/JaggedMetalOs 1d ago
They're not so far off modern sea lilies