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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It is, and we do find them all the time. We don’t have fossils of every single creature that ever lived because fossils are very hard to form. They only form under very specific conditions. For example, we have only ever found 13 Archaeopteryx fossils, but there were probably more than 13 Archaeopteryx ever in history.

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