EXPANDING FOSSIL THEORY
Were dinosaurs the size of todays animals?
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What if tyrannosaurus
rex was smaller than man?
What if giant prehistoric bugs were small like they are today? What if we have all been believing an assumption about dinosaurs our entire lives that was wrong? Paleontologist have at times doubted that dinosaurs of this great structure and size could carry the weight necessary to be agile and survive. Some even suggest that the gravity at the time may have been less. I suggest it was the same as today. Here is my theory: |
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| The theory of expanding fossils is based on the theory
of the expanding Earth, the belief that
the volume of the Earth increased over millions of years. As the expansion of the universe is the
seperation of parts in the universe, it could be possible that the
expanding Earth is the seperation of parts on a molecular scale.
Causing the atoms inside the molecules to spread out giving the
molecule more volume. The dinosaur fossils would, of course, be held by the same principles and therefore the rock they were made into during the fossilization process would over millions of years expand (molecularly seperate) as well. I am theorizing that the dinosaur was smaller, became fossilized and over a hundred million years or so the stone molecules seperated and the fossils themselves began to grow. This would give us the extreme, large sized dinosaurs that we are all familiar with. |
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| What gave me this idea? Bugs.... Yes, bugs. I was looking at meganeura fossils (look like dragonflies) with wingspans of over 2.5 feet and began wondering why some bugs would have been larger in prehistory. But what about bugs caught in amber? They are always normal size bugs. Amber is not made of rock. It is a macromolecule that may not expand along with rock molecules. And since the bugs are perfectly perserved inside the amber, they remain the size that their genetics allow them to be.  |
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| So it is my theory that if you could make a dinosaur from genetic material as in the movie Jurrasic Park, the new dinosaurs would be substantially smaller. Some even the size of lizards today. Of course this opens up a lot more speculation about extinction and evolution but I won't go into that here. | |||
| I'm not a scientist but I will continue over time to give this more thought. | |||