RE: Anatomically correct T. rex?

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Christian Darkin <christian@darkin.demon.co.uk>:

> I'm sure if we reconstructed a killer whale from the evidence of its
> bones, we wouldn't give it pretty black and white patterned skin, gentle
> eyes, and a big friendly smile...

I've wondered about this in the past.  I imagine a reconstruction of any 
mammal, based on its skull alone, by someone (say, an alien) who had no 
familiarity with modern mammal faces, would look pretty bizarre.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan