Understanding fossils:
A fossil is formed underground, which originated as a dead animal or plant, or something left by them.
The sort of dinosaur fossils that have been found include bones, teeth, claws, horns, bony plates, impression of skin (which is very rare), gizzard stones (called gastroliths), eggs (some even have unborn babies in them), dung (called coprolite), stomach contents (which is very rare), and footprints.
Fossils are found in layers of rock which was originally mud or sand.
For a fossil to form it requires a sudden burial and enough water, along with suitable minerals.
Dinosaur eggs:
The eggs that have been found are not very big. The smallest egg so far is only 2.5cm wide from a Mussaurus. Mussaurus
Hypselosaurus
Eggs from medium-size dinosaurs are not much bigger than a turkey’s egg. The eggs from a 11.7 metre long Hypselosaurus were no bigger than 30 cms. 
No one has found any eggs from a massive Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. (At time of writing).
Brachiosaurus
Are fossils as old as evolutionists claim them to be?
When a fossil is petrified, it means that the rock has replaced that part of the animal, plant, etc.
Research has shown that chicken bones and wood, can be replaced with minerals in only 5 to 10 years!
Giant dinosaur bones may take hundreds of years to completely mineralise, depending on the ground conditions.
There are many dinosaur bones that are still only about half ‘petrified’, which gives us a clue that they are only thousands of years old and not millions.
Some of the dinosaur bones even have proteins and amino acids still on them. [1]
In the Cretaceous clay in New Jersey, the wood from trees which grew at the time of the dinosaurs is still preserved.
So just because something is fossilised it doesn’t mean that it has to be millions of years old.
But unfortunately the evolution theory is quoted as fact.
The picturesque writing on evolution often describes speculation as facts:
This was written by Gloria Chang, 7th April 2000 [These pictures were not supplied with the text] (http://www.exn.ca/dinosaurs/Environment.cfm):
Icthyosaur
“......The Rocky mountains started to rise and the Earth started to look as it does today.
In the sea, Icthyosaurs declined as Plesiosaurs prospered.
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Frogs and salamanders appeared, while sea turtles grew into giants.
Plesiosaur
Giant marine lizards called Mosasaurs were the killer predators in the water.
Mosasaur
Pterosaur
Birds evolved, but the skies were still dominated by the the Pterosaurs, which also grew to enormous sizes. Some were as big as a small plane with a wingspan of 15 metres.
Stegosaurus
On land, the Stegosaurs became extinct and were replaced by Ankylosaurs. Ankylosaurus
The duckbilled dinosaurs appeared and flourished. But by the end of the Cretaceous, 65 millions years ago, they all died out....” This all sounds good to those who like evolution, but is it fact?
How easy is it to investigate the bones and what did dinosaurs look like?
It is not easy to piece together a dinosaur when there could be many missing and damaged bones, and even bones belonging to different dinosaurs all mixed together.
The Brontosaurus is a famous dinosaur, but unfortunately it never existed.
The majority of the skeleton was a type of Diplodocus, but the skull was an Apatosaurus, (which was found about 3 miles away, to make the skeleton complete!)
The Dinosaur programmes on the T.V. have been amazing in their inventiveness and special effects, but are based on facts mixed with the imaginations of the artists.
Unfortunately these programmes are made in such a way so as to make it all sound like solid, scientific facts, but much of it is mere speculation.
If we had never seen a parrot, or a tiger and we were given their bones, how accurate would our final coloured drawings be of what they looked like when they were alive?
Even if we got the general shape right, what about the tiger’s face?
What if we gave it very short fur and just a brown colour, would it still be a tiger?
The bones of lions and tigers are almost identical, and so it is very hard to tell their skeletons apart, but when you see the real live animals they are very different!
And what about the parrot, how could anyone guess the colours of it’s feathers?
Some scientists have even made complete drawings of dinosaurs when they have only got just a few bones - even just a leg, or a tooth.
There is no problem with trying to guess what these wonderful creatures looked like, the problem comes when all this guesswork is portrayed as fact and when all the time scale of millions of years is given as solid, indisputable fact.
[1] (See the great website: http://christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-age1.html for lots more information)
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