Those are images made from the data recovered from their fossils. I guess they didn't look like that at all. If the same process was done with human skeletons we'd have a very good laugh.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those are trilobites, part of the arthropod phylum. They have exoskeletons (i.e no inner bones), so they would probably look quite a lot like their fossils. Comparing them to vertebrates like humans (or dinosaurs, or whatever) in this context makes no sense.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And an exoskeleton can't have anything covering it because... ?

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Because that's what the "exo" part means.