: How do artists draw ancient animals accurately only from fossils?

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: How do artists draw ancient animals accurately only from fossils?

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They don’t. [Several artists have interpreted modern animals skeletons the same way we interpret dinosaurs and the results are pretty hilarious](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-animals).

Nowadays, paleontologists are kind of in a pickle. We’ll probably never know which dinosaurs were fluffy and which were scaley, because that aspect of the corpse doesn’t fossilize like the bones do. So we tend to just go with the giant lizard look.