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out swim them speed wise. Also for the question "where do we get these ideas from?" Probably from misidentifying already existing animals, from sightings or fossils.
My favourite example of this is with the elasmotherium spawning the unicorn legend

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2020-02-21

yesterday misidentified a photo of some tall flowers as being people flying kites. or did it?

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2019-11-23

New dinosaur discovered after lying misidentified in university's vaults for over 30 years https://t.co/JpiWPsjD2g

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2019-08-08

Famed paleontologist Richard Owen misidentified Lonchodraco as Pterodactylus in the 1850s. https://t.co/EBenp8H2Pt

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2019-07-21

throwback to when I misidentified a bone and it led to an... interesting reconstruction. Read more about how these hips did lie: https://t.co/CXagCLIC9N

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2019-05-18

Junji Ito’s wife is the painter Ayako Ishiguro, who has painted Yon (and the cat in the first tweet misidentified as Yon) many times before.

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2019-02-10

day 13 of is Suillus tridentinus, or the Orange Larch Bolete!
suillus mushrooms are often misidentified as their relatives, boletes, although they are still tasty edible mushrooms. this particular species tends to grow under larch trees up north 🌲

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2018-10-14

Grumpy boy gets misidentified 24/7 so maybe this will help

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2018-05-11

rip Shooting Star, misidentified by over hundreds of people

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2018-03-06

The differences of ducks. A page of Scaups from one of Alfred Crawhall Chapman's on a trip to Holy Island, December 1886, to "prove their changes of plumage". It was important to understand plumage to avoid misidentifying & misclassifying species

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2018-01-30

Famed paleontologist Richard Owen misidentified the Lonchodraco as Pterodactylus in the 1850s. https://t.co/OSK2nC3Mry

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2018-01-03