If Hypsilophodonts were so small and fragile why are so many of them found?
Hypsilophodonts were small, and many of their bones were very fragile. The bones we mainly find are the strongest bones from their legs, like their femurs. Many of the weaker bones got smashed in the rivers that carried their bones to where we now dig them out of the rocks. We usually find bones of small dinosaurs, as the rivers we are digging up to find the bones weren’t strong enough to carry large bones from bigger dinosaurs. (Try getting a hose, and spraying water on a number of objects of different sizes and weights and see which ones the water can push!) Also, Hypsilophodonts were a very common dinosaur, being a herbivore, unlike the rarer carnivorous dinosaurs alive at the same time, so we are more likely to find them.
