Why is the fossil record not full of transitional fossils?

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Wouldn’t species always be evolving? Example: Why do we find a couple of dozen T-Rex skeletons and not all the evolving stages that lead to the T. Rex over millions of years? And are those specimens classified as different species?

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Well yes, because they are all always evolving, every species is “transitional”, there isn’t really a “final form”. It’s not DBZ (though DBZ can’t seem to settle on s final form ever either lol). We find fossils that are similar enough => same species, if they’re differemt enough (based solely on petrified bones need I remind) => different species. We don’t actually have a way to make fossils fuck each other and then have their kids fuck each other too, so as to confirm that they are, in fact, of a single species, by the scientific definition.

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