So for thousand of years, people were digging, everywhere, and they never even found a tooth.
They did. They just could not interprete fossils properly, so they inspired tales of giants and dragons and other monsters. Indeed, some legendary creatures have fitting fossils in the region associated with them, such as cyclopes and elephant skulls on the mediterranean islands and the gryphons of the steppes beyond Scythia and the skulls of Protoceratops.
numb-nuts Owen
Owens was a staunch anti-Darwinist (admittedly probably more because he was an arch-conservative who did not want to offend his political allies in the clergy and because of the intense mutual personal, professional and political hostility between him and Huxley - IIRC he was not actually a creationist, but had some sort of his own evolutionary thoughts, such as believing birds to be descended from pterosaurs.)
You ever wonder why construction sites never find bones?
They do.
Even the museums have admitted that the bones they show you aren't real because the REAL ones apparently still have radiation on them from 66 million years ago. So if you live on top of or around undiscovered dinosaur bones the radiation magically doesn't affect you... until you dig them up haha. A
…where the Hadean do you get that idea??? No, full skeleton reconstructions are generally replicas because the original bones are too precious and needed for actual research, and also because you need to subsititute missing and warped bones. There are plenty of actual fossils on display.
According to the official story an entire skeleton has not been found and only 12 supposed specimens have been found.
Which genus are you talking about? In any case, what was found was clearly more than enough to show that this was a creature complete unlike anything known to walk the Earth today - especially since “not an entire skeleton” could well include an almost complete skeleton and/or one where parts are missing on one side of the skeleton but not the other. Also, twelve specimens are a pretty solid foundation, giving some insight into the phenotypical diversity and allowing to reconstruct far more since something missing from one skeleton may be present on another, and that’s leaving aside very closely related genera that may be available additionally.
