Also elephants, the trunk has no bones in it so it’s just a hole in the skull, I’m sure future generations will portray it but the single giant eye.
But honestly pretty much no animal looks the same as its skeleton because every animal has a lot of fat and connective tissue which just doesn’t get preserved. Really the only animal that looks the same as a skeleton as it does when it’s alive is the frog.
There’s theories that the Cyclops myth came about from ancient people’s finding fossil elephant skulls from the period where European Elephants were a species
(They went extinct in Europe 50,000-10,000 years ago)
Iirc it’s really where cyclops myth came from, they found a mammoth skull and thought that hole is the eye socket. There’s also same thing for dragon as well, people just don’t know what the skull looks like when alive so they made stuff up
Also elephants, the trunk has no bones in it so it’s just a hole in the skull, I’m sure future generations will portray it but the single giant eye.
But honestly pretty much no animal looks the same as its skeleton because every animal has a lot of fat and connective tissue which just doesn’t get preserved. Really the only animal that looks the same as a skeleton as it does when it’s alive is the frog.
There’s theories that the Cyclops myth came about from ancient people’s finding fossil elephant skulls from the period where European Elephants were a species
(They went extinct in Europe 50,000-10,000 years ago)
Iirc it’s really where cyclops myth came from, they found a mammoth skull and thought that hole is the eye socket. There’s also same thing for dragon as well, people just don’t know what the skull looks like when alive so they made stuff up