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Recent fossil discoveries carry an important message about Noah’s Ark. (Not surprisingly however, the researchers involved didn’t recognize/acknowledge it as such.)

The researchers found a toe claw from a baby tyrannosaur in Alberta, Canada. This prompted them to more closely analyze an already-known fossil jawbone from another baby tyrannosaur, found in Montana in 1983. With the aid of modern techniques, the researchers noticed key indications that both toe claw and jawbone are actually from the embryonic stage. I.e, these tiny tyrannosaurs died before they had hatched.

This shows us that, in the words of LiveScience, “the gigantic apex predator started out with a skull the size of a mouse.” And as one evolutionary biologist explained, various tyrannosaurs had extreme growth rates, “hatching out not much heavier than a house cat, and growing to the size of an elephant over 15 years or so.”

So, Noah’s job of accommodating ‘T. rex’ (and other dinos known for their huge size) on the Ark was a whole lot easier than some might imagine. The pairs God sent to him could have been at or shortly prior to adolescence. That would have meant they were much smaller than mature adults, but still able to fend for themselves by the end of the Flood year.

• Geggel, L., 1st of their kind baby tyrannosaur fossils unearthed; livescience.com, 16 Oct 2020.