Joel Kontinen
The fossil record can be a nightmare for Darwinian evolution, as animals often appear fully formed in the wrong places, don’t evolve for aeons and any assumed intermediate forms tend to be more or less suspicious. national geographic, in 2009,National Geographic reported that a third of dinosaur species never existed.
Dinosaurs Decoded is a documentary that challenges our views of dinosaurs. The film, produced by the National Geographic Channel, claims that a third of dinosaur species never existed.
Young dinosaurs differed in many ways from their parents. However, researchers have not always taken this into account. Science thus ”knows” species that have never existed.
Mark Goodwin of the University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horne of Montana State University, are prominent palaeontologists who present their discoveries in the documentary. They suggest, for instance, that the relatives of T. rex were often classified as distinct species although they actually were juveniles that lacked the traits that are characteristic of adult Tyrannosaurs.
Nowadays many researchers regard Nanotyrannus as a young T. rex. They know that dinosaurs changed as they got older just like many present species do. For instance, deer get their antlers when they are full-grown.
Jane and Petey were terrible teens, it seems.
Two 6-foot-tall dinosaurs, nicknamed "Jane" and "Petey," have been confirmed as Tyrannosaurus rex teenagers with years of growth ahead of them, and not a pygmy dinosaur species as some had argued.
In 2015, science posted an article about nonotyrannos, (its in Finnish, but you can see it here ).
Both teenagers were 1.8 to 2.4 centimetres 6 to 8 feet in height, about 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) in length, and they about 1,000 kilograms 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms).
Microscopic analysis of the bones from the two skeletons, both found in Montana in the early 2000s, determined that they were from two Tyrannosaurus rex juveniles, 13 and 15 years old at death — and not a new species named Nanotyrannus, which has been suggested.
"The research confirmed that these were immature animals," paleontologist Holly Woodward from Oklahoma State University told Live Science. "They were not full-sized."
This study shows that the creationist’s view of dinos is right. They would like God calling the dinos that were in their teens to climb on board Noah’s Ark.
Source:
Metcalfe, Tom. 2020. 6-Foot-Tall T. Rex Skeletons Not a New Pygmy Species, Just Teenagers. Live Science (3.1.).
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