New Study Examines Whether Tiny Dinosaurs Ever Existed

A new study invites paleontologists to reckon with a quiet but profound gap in their understanding: the possibility that tiny dinosaurs once shared the Mesozoic world with giants, leaving behind bones too fragile and too small for history to easily hold. The research does not overturn the fossil record so much as interrogate its silences, asking whether our picture of prehistoric life has been shaped as much by what preserves well as by what actually existed. In doing so, it raises a question that echoes far beyond dinosaurs — how much of the past remains invisible simply because the small and