I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.
If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.
If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.
If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.
We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.
My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.
As a defense against predators, this fish can swallow water into its stretchy stomach to quickly grow in size, erecting the sharp spines on its skin that otherwise lie flat! The stomach of the longspined porcupinefish is extremely specialised for this purpose: it is full of folds, has additional muscles surrounding it that squeeze out the water once it's time to deflate, and lacks any digestive ability.
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you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out
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