I wish they would do this with more skulls used as relics in Catholic churches.

“The final image includes a man with a cap of thinning brown hair crowning his head.” It’s obviously a tonsure you big thicko.

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Yeah, like come on he's a monk ffs.

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“ Dear St. Anthony, come on down, something’s lost and can’t be found.”

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Also known a Santo António de Lisboa (Saint Anthony of Lisbon).

Are these actually of any accuracy? Going based off just a skull you can't tell what someone's flesh looked liked to any degree. Just like you can't tell feathers on fossils usually

You are very confident about something you do not know much about

This is on one hand super cool and on the other hand super underwhelming since he looks exactly like I would picture an Italian monk of the time… like this is the blueprint

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It's actually a well known thing. How many fossils have you seen of dinosaurs that show feathers? These facial reconstructions are known to be utter bs, they can't even get it right on people that we know what they looked like

Feathers on dinosaurs and soft tissue on bone are entirely different things

See that’s what clued me in

And considering the same facial reconstruction techniques are used to positively ID crime victims, calling them utter BS is a bit of a judgement call I don’t think you know enough to make

I think they're conflating the whole "shrink-wrap" effect dinosaurs have with their fossil reconstructions and the human reconstruction process.

Or possibly reconstructions from like, a decade ago

Have you ever seen those police reconstructions? They never once actually look like the person. I'll say it again, they can't even get it right on people we know what they looked like. The human skull has very little differences person to person. You can tell if they had some diseases and such IF you an get dna from it. But what someone looked like accurately? Not a chance

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/skeletal-remains-identification-facial-reconstruction

Here’s a quick case study of positively ID’ed bodies by family members

You seem to be just running off your opinion that its totally inaccurate, when its obviously accurate enough for family members to recognize loved ones through reconstruction

"facial sculpturing techniques has been widely criticized by forensic scientists for its lack of scientific reproduction of the final product and for its low statistical success rates"

Think ill go by the forensic expertsmate

Lack of reproducibility has nothing to with the fidelity that you’re talking about and the entire article goes on to defend the practice against those criticisms

Way to tell me you read until you met the first thing that reconfirmed your opinions

If you want high fidelity in forensics, you def don’t want to hear about bite mark or shoe print analysis

Tony, Tony, look around / Something's lost that can't be found.

My non-Catholic (fallen-away Unitarian, even) mother found a diamond earring that fell out of her ear lobe in the yard using this time-honored prayer!

We have many examples of how human soft tissue appears on the average person, assuming this individual had no more able deformities this would be fairly accurate. We have no idea what dinosaur soft tissue would have looked like, that’s what makes accurate dioramas of them from nothing but their bones so difficult. Also human soft tissue and the way it attaches to bones is a very different study from feathers on dinosaurs, a better comparison would be trying to say what human hair looked like from just our bones and no other frame of reference.

He's the one Catholics pray to find lost objects, no?

This is hilarious. He looks like a taxi driver in Brooklyn, lol. They spent thousands to reveal that he looks like some random white dude.

Now that’s a pedo face if I ever saw one!

He was portuguese though, but yeah still underwhelming

Just yesterday I visited his birthplace in Lisbon LOL

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Paul Simon?

Someone needs to train an AI with all the data of the skulls with confirmed pictures lying around. Then run that model on the skulls where pictures are missing/too old. Potential magic

I had no idea about it, but apparently that's what the web says.

You see one every time you look in the mirror

well, he was a random white dude

with all the x-rays ever made that could be a lot of useful data

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.. did you expect a Portuguese monk to look like an Asian woman?

I was raised Catholic but am not a follower anymore, I wasn't sure if there were more than one St. Anthony and you sounded like you had a better handle on if he was the one my mom would tell me to ask for his help :)

We kind of have Catholicism embedded into the portuguese culture, even if you are not religious, and you hear about St. Anthony at least twice every year when in Lisbon they celebrate the St. Anthony's weddings or his festival in June.