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This article has two images of the old way people picture the Pterosaurs, but only shows a close up of the hips, and not the whole animal, in the newly hypothesized position. Highly unsatisfactory.

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Yeah, a simple "Before and After" shot would tell the whole story at a glance—which makes me wonder if these writers are incentivized to not summarize their work visually.

That's not a closeup of the hips, that's the entire body of it. I think you're being thrown off by the weird angle of the shot - the hips are in the top right, not the bottom left. This shows the legs tucked forward with the knees against the rib cage.

All of its appendages extend off the edge of the picture, so it's pretty hard to mentally reconstruct the whole animal.

The page shows a modal popup with two options: consent to personalised ads, or visit the privacy policy to withdraw consent. I visited the privacy policy and withdrew consent (by clicking the link at the end of the page's text, obstructively labelled “here”), but I was still unable to read the article.

(…until I deleted a few page elements using the page inspector, and removed a class from the body element. This is beyond most users.)

I thought this was illegal now, in the new world of the GDPR, because consent must be actually consensual.

They don't want to give you their content unless you agree to their terms. "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots."

The GPDR still doesn't allow for sites to gate access based on a user allowing their data to be harvested. It was done like this explicitly because of the way every site turned the cookie notice into a click to continue box

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