THE TRUTH ABOUT TINYSAURS!

A Better Understanding of Fossils

The scientists of today have long used fossils as their basis of knowledge about dinosaurs. Fossilization has been thought of as a process whereby bone and organic material is slowly replaced by inorganic sedimentary minerals. However, the fossilization process has not been wholly understood until recently. Most fossils are buried deep within the earth near water tables; the same underground water responsible for transforming bones to fossils creates other side effects in the process. The water table raises and lowers over centuries so that fossils are periodically submerged. In periods where a fossil is covered with water it swells, as the water leaves it deposits minerals into the fossil causing it to collect more and more mass albeit very slowly .

Dinosaurs were Much Smaller than Previously Believed

The result: fossils are swelling and dinosaurs were much smaller than previously believed. Many scientists today have reclassified the same animal over and over again simply because the scale of the fossils they found where different from previous discoveries. However, these differences in scale are due to the location and time period in which the animal died, and in many cases two species are in fact one.

Working backwards we can estimate true sizes for many dinosaurs (or tiny-saurs as we now call them). An Ankylosaurus once thought to be some 20’ long was actually the same size as a modern day cocker-spaniel, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex was similar in scale to a turkey.