Transitional fossils in evolution

[Loki]

I'm interested in reading up more about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

I was kind of thinking ... if there are 5 skeletons found of Tyrannosaurus rex, and the same of Stegosaurus ... then obviously we should be able to found many more of their predecessors, who have evolved to be them. Do we have that? It's kind of weird when you think of it. :confused:

[Furnace]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-090917-trex-predecessor-pictures,0,156773.photogallery


Looks more like a raptor though, tbh.

Raptors too got rather short front limbs.

[cally]

Vast majority of species do not produce fossils so we're lucky to have the fossil records that we do. Finite fossils vs. infinite stages. (note: each stage is a species in its own right)