Zeno Pirone

Abysm of Ages

Added 2025-10-19 20:30:47 +0000 UTC

Hylaeosaurus' Victorian reconstructions seem to often be confused with Iguanodon to the untrained eye, an understandable mistake given the similarities in reconstruction at the time, though in reality, as modern science and later discoveries proved, they have very little in common visually, Hylaeosaurus being a part of the Ankylosaurid family and all.

Labyrinthodon seems to have faired a little better, though what was once some sort of squatting, grimacing, mischievous toad has been revealed to be more akin to the various extant species of modern salamander. Stealing eggs from nests is almost certainly not something Labyrinthodonts would have done, but the Victorians wouldn't have known that.

Hylaeosaurus modern reconstruction by Mark Witton