A dwarf fun fact

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Hello All,

Tonight I was watching the discovery channel about Dinosaurs. It was

a really neat program and talked about them and their lives. They

named it Dinosaur Planet. Well I was watching about Pod the

dinosaur and his life. It seems that there were dwarf dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs lived at a time when the continents kept shifting so they

kept relocating and had to adapt to different climates and

conditions. If dinosaur A relocated from the mainland to an island

then Dinosaur A, really his offspring, etc would over time become a

dwarf to adapt. Dinosaur size represented their land space. So on

the mainland you could have average size dinosaur A but on the

island have dwarf dinosaur A's. They could be 1/2 to 1/4th size of

there average dinosaur counterpart. On the website I was reading

that one type of dinosaur faded out only to come back as a dwarf

version for adaptation.

So it seems that dwarfism wasn't just a chromosomal mistake but

for some species back in the day an evolutionary occurance,

something that actually helped them in their adaptation.

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