# The duckbilled WTFasaurus
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 27, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469 "2019-01-27T00:39:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/1 "2019-01-27T00:39:01Z")
[Here](http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/eretmorhipis-carrolldongi-platypus-like-bill-06847.html) is an article about a newly-discovered Triassic duckbilled non-dinosaur, which is interesting for the science value alone, but I’m mainly posting because the top illustration must to be seen to be believed. That has to be one of the most horrible “artistic interpretations” I have ever seen.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/2 "2019-01-27T00:53:48Z")
Looks like a page out of an adult coloring book.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/3 "2019-01-27T01:05:59Z")
One must assume that the color patterns are merely speculation.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/4 "2019-01-27T01:13:41Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> One must assume that the color patterns are merely speculation.
Really, really, really _stupid_ speculation.
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/5 "2019-01-27T03:11:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Really, really, really _stupid_ speculation.
Well, stripes and ripple patterns aren’t unreasonable for an aquatic animal. And the colors could theoretically be appropriate, if the creature fed in shallow water over yellowish sand/clay beds. It’s more the overall bad rendering than specifically stupid color patterns.
Still better than I could do…but then, I wouldn’t be drawing anything for publication. 😛
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/6 "2019-01-27T18:25:07Z")
Well, that… that is certainly a thing. I guess.
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### Author:  [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/7 "2019-01-27T18:51:58Z")
You really need to click on the picture and see it at full size to really appreciate it. It’s not just the colors of the animal, either. The top half is blurry, like a low-resolution photo blown up. It’s like someone did a Google search for sunsets and downloaded the first result. The “Sun” (or is it supposed to be the moon? I’m not sure.) looks like it was drawn in MS paint. It’s even jagged where it cuts across the mountain and doesn’t line up properly. The animal itself was poorly cut out from some other source and pasted in. Looks like they used a lasso tool and had the threshold turned way down to keep from getting empty holes cut out in the body. The whole thing appears to have been slapped together in about 5 minutes.
Edit: I found the credited artist and from his Facebook page he seems to be a wood sculptor. Maybe he’s not an illustrator but I would think he could do better than that.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/8 "2019-01-27T19:25:36Z")
This is the guy I want to do my full-body tattoo.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/9 "2019-01-27T20:00:58Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> This is the guy I want to do my full-body tattoo.
Of the WTFasaurus no doubt!
😃
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/10 "2019-01-27T21:16:31Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> Of the WTFasaurus no doubt!
> 😃
No, I’m thinking a Kabuki/Japanese inspired scene. A Geisha bathes in a pond (full of coy and surrounded by lush vegetation, rocks, a stream and maybe a waterfall) while a Classic Demon lurks in the reeds, ready to attack and do his demonic thing. A Samurai (in full armor) approaches, sword drawn, to defend her.
Just think what this guy could do with that!
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/11 "2019-01-27T21:23:49Z")
I imagine it would look something like this: [Horrible Tattoos - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=1D14B1B333B1E6FAF0C0590D107CA0D63DDE35F5&thid=OIP.D4_QxH-rY_AtNJNJg1mj3wHaJa&mediaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teamjimmyjoe.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F02%2FChicken-Leg.jpg&exph=636&expw=500&q=Horrible+Tattoos&selectedindex=102&adt=1&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=1,2,6)
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/12 "2019-01-27T21:24:49Z")
I just watched a Nature [episode](https://www.thirteen.org/13pressroom/press-release/attenborough-and-the-sea-dragon/) with David Attenborough about an ancient Ichthyosaur.
One of the things they found out about one fossil is that it had two-toned shading. Light on the bottom, dark on the top. Like many sharks, whales, etc. today.
So, yeah, very realistic.
(And David Attenborough still has _it_.)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/13 "2019-01-27T21:33:17Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> No, I’m thinking a Kabuki/Japanese inspired scene. A Geisha bathes in a pond (full of coy and surrounded by lush vegetation, rocks, a stream and maybe a waterfall) while a Classic Demon lurks in the reeds, ready to attack and do his demonic thing. A Samurai (in full armor) approaches, sword drawn, to defend her.
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> Just think what this guy could do with that!
Full of coy what? Full of coy what??
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/14 "2019-01-27T22:02:04Z")
[Coy koi.](http://anneawh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/coy-koi-10a.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/15 "2019-01-28T00:08:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> This is the guy I want to do my full-body tattoo.
Finally getting that life-sized rendering of yourself?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/16 "2019-01-28T00:12:39Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> [Coy koi.](http://anneawh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/coy-koi-10a.jpg)
Can these coy koi play [koi-koi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi-Koi)?
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/17 "2019-01-28T05:51:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Full of coy what? Full of coy what??
A coy WTFasaurus, damnit!
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/18 "2019-01-28T17:56:45Z")
Wow, that’s [paleoart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoart) at its most…something. An unlikely contender for the [John J. Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize](http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award-(15).aspx)!
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-duckbilled-wtfasaurus/828469/19 "2019-01-28T18:05:48Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> A coy WTFasaurus, damnit!
Just as long as it wasn’t a coy andvanceduke. (Shudder.)