Quote from: DoomRulz on Mar 04, 2011, 10:35:12 PM
we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.
What if in 300 million years, Humanity is extinct and the only fossils the Cthulhu Spawn (or insert civilization here) will find, are of a child's, and then they find only adult Gorillas' skeletons? Will they think that the human babies' skeletons are the young of the Gorillas' skeletons?
We've got a f**kload of species that did not fossilize. And the ones that did fossilize are very, very rare. Fact that we've found only adults of the Triceratops specimen doesn't demonstrate a lot.
It's for this very reason that I doubt the 'T.Rex max. life span = 30 years' thing as well.