Ha! Ha! Great post!
btw.. they did a good job in school to teach us that all dinosaurs were GIANT animals, ALL the time.
Look at turtles. Born small. Go to your state fair and they have a HUGE one that is 300 years old. It kept growing with time.. Couldn’t it be POSSIBLE that dinosaurs were the same???
“they did a good job in school to teach us that all dinosaurs were GIANT animals, ALL the time.”
Either your schooling failed you or you didn’t study hard enough.
“Look at turtles. Born small. Go to your state fair and they have a HUGE one that is 300 years old. It kept growing with time.. Couldn’t it be POSSIBLE that dinosaurs were the same???”
Well, we know dinosaurs started out pretty small, because we have the eggs to see exactly how large they were at birth. So it’s not far-fetched that someone might have been able to pack up a bunch of juveniles on a boat without a lot of trouble. It might have gotten a little cramped after a year of growth though.
Still, we can look at similar-sized animals we can observe, like elephants, and see that even 1 year old elephants have a way to go to get to adult size. Also, elephants are mammals, so they have several months of headstart on reptiles, since mammals can start growing while in the womb. A similar sized reptile, all other factors being equal, should be smaller at one year than a mammal.
One thing that is fascinating to me about the size question is that it doesn’t seem possible for any creature to grow to the size of the larger dinosaurs in today’s environment. Anything much bigger than an elephant or a giraffe just wouldn’t be able to live without some new kind of biology. Yet, not just dinosaurs, but all sorts of creatures like insects and plants grew to enormous sizes at some point in history. I tend to think that it was very different atmospheric conditions that allowed this hypergrowth, and that could explain how dinosaurs died suddenly, if it was an atmospheric change they could not adjust to.