[brzozowski]

The paper has some nice illustrations in case anyone is interested in reading about it in more detail: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa06...

[themodelplumber]

Whoa, that map on page 2 reminds me of some 1990s tabletop RPGs. Right down to the naming style.

[cheerlessbog]

That paper is a beautiful thing: 86 pages full of hand stippled line drawings.

[neolog]

I wonder why they're using illustrations instead of 3D models.

[AlotOfReading]

They probably had an illustrator already availabile and didn't want to make an unrealistic secondary model while fighting the modeling/rendering toolchain to do so.

[Someone]

Drawings can better show what the bones look like than photographs (https://thenode.biologists.com/illustrators-see-camera-cant/...)

I would think that is true for “drawing vs 3D model”, too, but of course, 3D models could be used to check the interpretation by the illustrator.

[jazzyjackson]

Not everybody's got a high res 3D scanner laying around

[bigiain]

/me looks at the front facing camera and tof sensor on his phone and sighs...

[TeMPOraL]

Technology, meet business goals :(.

[Hokusai]

Used to many 2 pager papers, at 86 pages this paper feels more like a book than a paper.