The Mini Dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains

FiReaNGeL writes "When unusually small dinosaur fossils were found in a quarry on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in 1998, it was initially assumed that these were the remains of a group of young dinosaurs. This was a fallacy, as the Bonn palaeontologist, Dr. Martin Sander, recently discovered. At a maximum estimated weight of one tonne, they were only a fiftieth the weight of their closest relatives, the brachiosaurs, and thus by far the smallest of the giant dinosaurs which have ever been found."

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Re:'Conspiracy' theory

[MichaelSmith]

Anyone ever notice how as you go further and further back in history animals get bigger and bigger compared to their present day counterparts?

• Big stuff lasts longer in the ground and is easier to see when you go digging
• Human beings kill the biggest animals around for food, this being the most efficent way to get dinner. Over time big things become extinct.