>>11805158>rarely find a full dinosaur fossil?There are plenty of complete skeletons though, or only missing a few ankle bones.
They're still animals, and they have extant descendants running around today.
Not to mention the fact that convergent evolution is a thing.
Also you're strawmanning that there is some kind of absolute authority on dinosaurs when there are multiple competing schools attacking the problem from different angles.
No one is just pulling things out of their ass, even when they're making guesses they're informed.
