Originally published at: Scientists think T. Rex had big lips | Boing Boing
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…Weird to find out this was still a thing that needed proving. Paleoartists have been saying it for years now.
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Of course. How else could he kiss Mrs. T-Rex?
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T. regina. 
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What?! No artist’s rendition?!
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They weren’t completely convinced until they actually spotted the needle marks in the bone from the overzealous Cretaceous beautician.
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I think the Hadrosaurs were the ones famous for the “duck face” look.
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My google image search for “trex with lips” wasn’t nearly as interesting as I hoped it would be…
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Our notions of what dinosaurs looked like is, of course, certainly wrong. As the infamous “reconstruction” using similar guidelines on living animals indicates…
(And if you’ve ever seen a featherless owl… it really hits home.)
The various images showing the “new version” are still pretty conservative, really, and no so different from the traditional reconstructions… e.g.
Basically the same T-Rex, but without the overbite…
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I remember seeing this assertion on a kids science show probably 20 years ago, on PBS I thi k. In the show they pointed out the row of indentations below the teeth, and compared to other lipped-reptiles that have the same indentations. I’m sure there was more to it than that though
Here’s something from 2016
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Hey he isn’t that old!
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Are we sure?
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Lets ask these guys
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Spy Magazine did a separated at birth with Keith Richards and Dino.
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They still had trouble applying the lip balm, because tiny forearms. 
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I don’t know… The swans are quite accurate.
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