> a swan shrink wrapped

This is from the excellent book All Yesterdays, a book of paleoart. The point of those images wasn't to represent issues with well done reconstructions, but instead to reimagine modern animals if we shrink wrapped them the same way that is (and especially was) done with dinosaur reconstructions in the past...trim muscles, no body fat, no feathers or fur of any sort, no fleshy bits. And then monsterize them a bit because they are dinosaurs after all. A Jurassic Park raptor probably isn't much closer to true life appearance than that swan. And there are plenty of older reconstructions that are further off.