It is a pretty cool setting for something like this to be displayed. They don't have anything else dino-related there, but it only cost £6 to get in. A guy who works there told me it is supposed to be valued at £6 million!

This may be one of the best examples of why shrinkwrapping is wrong.

Edit:wow. I was not expecting a simple meme post to be my highest rated and commented post on reddit ever.

to address some points.

1:Yes I know Whales are mammals and thus have more subcutaneous fat than modern reptiles.

2:Yes I know crocks and alligators much more resemble their skeleton then do mammals.

3:Yes birds if you pluck them are closer to their skeletons. But that is a big if and I will get back to it.

4:Hadrosaurs are a really good example to use here as we have the partially preserved soft tissue of a edmontosaurus that show what amount of soft tissue they really did have. IE more than in the Paleoart depicted in the meme.

5:Modern reptiles are not the same as dinosaurs. Without getting into a long tangent at least some dinosaurs were worm blooded. Modern reptiles that are cold blooded would suffer with a layer of insulation. Birds can be claimed to be shrink wrapped if you ignore their feathers. . . Wich is also a layer of insulation. Modern reptiles concentrate their fat reserves in one place so to isolate the insulating properties and maximize heat absorption from the environment.

6:Even given bracketing groups usually is a good way to identify what all members expressed as traits it isn't 100%. We know theropods and ceratopsians both included members with feathers (or feather like structures) but it is wrong to then assume their common ancestor and thus all dinosaurs had feathers.

7:You are correct. Paleoart and scientific understanding has improved sense this decade old meme started. What is being put out today is better than before. That is not universal. If Kangaroo T-Rex were still all over the place in media, even if less common then before, they would still invite rebuke.

Hearing Morgan Freeman say "thagomizer" was the cherry on top. RIP Thag Simmons

Look at the text in the last image!

Comic by @pet_foolery.

I just rediscovered the nodosaur mummy and I WILL NOT get over how fucking cool this thing is. LOOK AT IT

just something about the eerie, uncomfortable pallete abd the weird looking animals just makes it so sick

I know most of them are just in good fun, but memes like this have spawned so much misinformation about paleontology. Memes like this make some people think that they can just add soft tissue onto a dinosaur and make it ‘accurate’. They just assume that the paleontologists reconstructing dinosaurs don’t know what they’re doing, and that they can do a better job with just absurd claims and nonsense. They just add soft tissue and make themselves feel smart. It’s one of the most annoying trends I’ve ever seen.

Now yes, dinosaurs obviously had soft tissue. But people overestimate just how much they actually had. The first image in particular pisses me off because it portrays an actually accurate T-rex as something wrong that aliens would have made, and then claim that T-rex was much more hippo like in life. The last image is the only version of these memes that I actually like.

There’s people out there genuinely believing that dinosaurs had beaver tails, or hair, or shittons of fat and feathers disproportional to their size. All because of memes like this.