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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Amber from AGES ago has bugs trapped inside. A modern bug specialist (entomologist) would be able to show you modern day bugs just like those from when the amber (tree sap) trapped the bug.

No evolution for those bugs.

However, think of the wide variety of bugs today. It is just tough to catch enough half-way whatevers in the fossil record.