> I feel like even a child knows that a dinosaur is a reconstruction. How could it be anything else? They don't exist today. It's possible to see recreations o

> I feel like even a child knows that a dinosaur is a reconstruction. How could it be anything else? They don't exist today. It's possible to see recreations of extinct animals that humans have overlapped with enough to write and draw how they looked. It's even possible to see real specimens of extinct creations, such as the Oxford Dodo https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/the-oxford-dodo https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/the-oxford-dodo You don't need much more knowledge, but definitely more than "they don't exist today". But equally with colourised photos/video: you don't need more knowledge than "this was filmed before it was possible to film in colour, so all colours are guesses".